 Farm Population: Revised Estimates for 1941-59Farm Population Branch, Economic and Statistical Analysis Division, Economic Research Service No 320033, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Abstract: In 1960, a new and more restrictive definition of the farm population was adopted by the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, for use in current surveys and censuses. The effect of this definition change has been discussed in detail elsewhere. Its use in the Current Population Survey resulted in a farm population estimate of 15,635,000 in 1960, as compared with 20,541,000 on the old definition. For certain purposes, there is considerable need for a continuous comparable annual series of farm population estimates, for example, to permit computation of per capita annual farm income figures. For such uses, revision of farm population data to provide a continuous annual series and to eliminate the large break in the series produced by the definition change is deemed necessary, even though it is recognized that there is no exact and definitive way of merging the old and new series. This report presents revisions of the farm population of the United States for the years 1941 through 1959, and explains the method of revision used. Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uersmp:320033 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC. |
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