An International Conference on Agricultural Statistics
~ March 18 - 20, 1998 ~
~ Proceedings ~
edited by
Theresa E. Holland
Marcel P.R. Van den Broecke
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Table of Contents
Introduction (title, dedication, preface, table of contents) | page-i |
Agricultural Statistics 2000: Opening Remarks | |
~ Fred Vogel, Program Chair, National Agricultural
Statistics Service, USDA |
page-1 |
Agricultural Statistics Requirements and Uses | |
Agricultural
Statistics for Public Policy Issues ~ Keith Collins, United States Department of Agriculture |
page-7 |
Agricultural
Statistics for Private Sector and Global Marketing |
page-13 |
Agricultural
Statistics for Environmental Monitoring and Policy ~ Kevin Parris, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
page-16 |
Agricultural
Statistics for Rural Development ~ Ray D. Bollman, Statistics Canada |
page-29 |
International
Standards and Definitions for Agricultural Statistics and
Requirements for World Census of Agriculture |
page-42 |
Discussion
~ Michael Ward, The World Bank |
page-51 |
Sources of Agricultural Statistics - Part 1 | |
Experience
with Annual Censuses of Agriculture ~ Glen Sward, Geoff Heffernan & Alan Mackay, Australian Bureau of Statistics |
page-59 |
Experiences
with Census of Agriculture in Africa ~ Ben Kiregyera, FAO Consultant, Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania |
page-71 |
Agricultural
Census and Improvement of Rural Statistics in China ~ Zhu Xiangdong, State Statistical Bureau, People’s Republic of China |
page-83 |
Sampling
Strategy for Agricultural Censuses and Surveys in Developing Countries ~ Isidoro P. David, Asian Development Bank |
page-96 |
Integration
of Administrative Data with Survey and Census Data ~ Michael Trant & Patricia Whitridge, Statistics Canada |
page-107 |
Discussion
~ Bal B.P.S. Goel, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute |
page-115 |
Sources of Agricultural Statistics - Part 2 | |
Crop
Cutting vs. Farmer Reports - Review of Swedish Findings ~ Lars Hagblad, Statistics Sweden |
page-123 |
Agrometeorological
Crop Yield Forecasting Methods ~ René Gommes, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
page-133 |
Statistics
Canada’s Near Real-Time Crop Condition Assessment Program |
page-142 |
Data
Collection for Environmental Monitoring of the Agriculture Industry ~ Sarah Coleman, Nicholas Stathis, Geoff Heffernan & Alan Mackay, Australian Bureau of Statistics |
page-149 |
Surveys
for Farm Structure, Agricultural Accounts and
Total Income of Agricultural Households ~ Berkeley Hill, Wye College, University of London, UK |
page-162 |
Discussion
~ Ulf Jorner, Statistics Sweden |
page-173 |
Advancements in Survey Methodology and Analysis | |
The
National Resources Inventory and its Role in U.S. Agriculture ~ J. Jeffery Goebel, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA |
page-181 |
Land
Cover and Land Use Classification using TER-UTI ~ Christian Gay & Jean-Claude Porchier, Service Central des Enquêtes et Études Statistiques, France |
page-193 |
Utilization
of Document Imaging Technology by
the 1996 Canadian Census of Agriculture |
page-202 |
New
Methods of Editing and Imputation ~ Svein Nordbotten, University of Bergen, Norway |
page-220 |
Partial
Overlap Samples and Combining Information ~ Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa State University, USA |
page-229 |
Small
Area Estimation in India - Crop Yield and Acreage Statistics ~ B.D. Tikkiwal, Institute of Developmental Research and Statistics, India & G.C. Tikkiwal, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, India |
page-238 |
Discussion
~ Francisco Javier Gallego, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission |
page-251 |
Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems for Agricultural Statistics | |
New
Elements for Harmonized Approaches on Land
Cover/Land Use Information Systems |
page-257 |
Area
Frame Sample Designs: A Comparison with
the MARS Project ~ Elisabetta Carfagna, University of Bologna, Italy |
page-261 |
Remote
Sensing in Mexico ~ Juan Manuel Galarza & Guillermo Arita, Centro de Estadística Agropecuaria, Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería y Desarrollo Rural, México |
page-278 |
Crop
Monitoring in Morocco Using Remote Sensing and
Geographic Information Systems: From a Management Perspective ~ Seghir Bouzaffour, Ministry of Agriculture, Morocco & George Hanuschak, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA |
page-282 |
GIS
Use in the Framework of a National Statistical Office: Establishment
of Land Use Statistics and Geocoding of National Censuses ~ Rainer Humbel, Swiss Federal Statistical Office |
page-291 |
Discussion
~ George Hanuschak, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA |
page-305 |
Future Perspectives for Agricultural Statistics | |
Issues
and Concerns for Developed Countries ~ Andreas Lindner, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
page-311 |
Issues
and Concerns for Emerging Market Countries ~ Irena Orenik, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia |
page-323 |
Issues
and Concerns for Developing Countries ~ Ladislav Kabat, L. Naiken, A. David Marshall & Pratap Narain, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
page-332 |
Technological
Trends in Statistics: the Dutch Perspective ~ Wouter J. Keller, Statistics Netherlands & Marcel P.R. Van den Broecke, International Statistical Institiute |
page-341 |
Trends
Affecting Agricultural Statisticians ~ Rich Allen, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA |
page-343 |
Discussion
~ Kelley White, Economic Research Service, USDA |
page-351 |
Agricultural Statistics 2000: Closing Remarks ~ Fred Vogel, Program Chair, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA |
page-355 |
Contributed Papers | |
Spatial
Sampling Strategies ~ Luis Ambrosio Flores & Luis Iglesias Martínez, U.P.M. Madrid, Spain & Robert P. Haining, University of Sheffield, England |
page-359 |
Eurostat’s
Input and Candidate Countries: Agricultural Statistics ~ Giuseppe Calo, Statistical Office of the European Communities |
page-361 |
Issues
on a Food Consumption Survey in Korea ~ Ji-Hyeon Choi, Korea Rural Economic Institute |
page-364 |
How
GIS Technology Can Answer Information Needs on
Agricultural New Open Markets |
page-366 |
Inequality
in Israeli Agriculture ~ Elana Dror & Haim Regev, Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel |
page-369 |
Linux:
International UNIX and Freeware for Statisticians ~ Charles M. Fleming & Jameson Burt, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA |
page-371 |
Maize
Yield Forecast Based on Cob Size ~ Bal B.P.S. Goel, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute |
page-374 |
Sampling
Design for a Farm Household Economy Survey in Korea ~ Jongwoo Jeon, Seoul National University & Kyu Seong Kim, University of Seoul, Republic of Korea |
page-377 |
The
Argentine National Census of Agriculture of 1998 ~ Delia Keller, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Argentina |
page-379 |
Experiences
with Census of Agriculture in Korea ~ Dong-Keun Kim, Agricultural Statistics & Information Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry, Korea |
page-381 |
A
New Estimating Method for Normal Yield of Rice ~ Fumio Nakayama & Koji Kitamura, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries, Japan |
page-383 |
Making
Objective Crop Forecasts ~ G.S. Ram, Ministry of Agriculture, India |
page-385 |
Unbiased
Estimation of Production Total Using Specific Sampling Designs ~ M. Ruiz Espejo, UNED, Madrid, Spain, & Housila P. Singh & Rajesh Singh, Vikram University, India |
page-387 |
Estimation
of Per-Farm Indexes for Each Product Sector from
a Farm Management Survey ~ Shomei Tsukibayashi, Aichi University, Japan |
page-389 |
The
Evolution of the Official Australian Agricultural Statistics Collection System ~ Edward Whybrow, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Australia |
page-391 |
Market
Information Service for Fresh Food in Japan ~ Masao Yoshida, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan |
page-394 |
Appendix A: Index of Authors and Presenters | page-399 |
Appendix B: Conference Program | page-401 |
Appendix C: Conference Participants (alphabetically, by country, map of countries represented) | page-405 |
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