Selected items from the Census of Agriculture at the county level for the conterminous United States, 1950-2012
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Resource Abstract:
These data are a subset of categories and items from county-level data for the conterminous United States covering the census
reporting years beginning with the 1950 Census of Agriculture and ending with the 2012 Census of Agriculture. Historical (1950-1997)
data were extracted from digital files obtained through the Intra-university Consortium on Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
More current (1997-2012) data were extracted from the National Agriculture Statistical Service(NASS) Census Query Tool for
the census years of 1997, 2002, 2007, and 2012. <br> <br> Please refer to the Supplemental Information element of the
metadata for information on the Census of Agriculture, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR),
table and variable structure, data comparability, missing data, county alignment, definitions, and references.<br> <br> In
addition to the data sets and metadata is an Excel workbook containing key spreadsheets for items and variables by category
and a spreadsheet noting the presence or absence of entire variable data by year.<br> <br> Downloadable files:<br> Census_of_Agriculture_1950-2012.xml:
metadata in xml format.<br> Census_of_Agriculture_1950-2012.pdf: bookmarked version of metadata.<br> VariableKey.xlsx: reference
of variable availability.<br> Landuse_General_schema.pdf: graphic showing category structure.<br> COA.7z: zipped file containing
the data tables by category.
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Title Selected items from the Census of Agriculture at the county level for the conterminous United States, 1950-2012
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purpose:
Data tables were assembled from the Census of Agriculture to support regional and sub-regional studies of groundwater and
surface-water quality by providing a historical (1950-2012) perspective of agricultural activities and trends on the land
surface.