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Farms--Number and Acreage: 1975 to 2006 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0802)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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Credits

US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service,

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service,

Farms and Land in Farms, 1969-75

(Statistical Bulletin No. 594); Farm Numbers, 1975-80;

Farms and Land in Farms, Final Estimates by States, 1979-1987;

Farms and Land in Farms, Final Estimates, 1988-1992; and

Farms and …

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, http://www.nass.usda.gov/index.asp

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service,

Farms and Land in Farms, 1969-75

(Statistical Bulletin No. 594); Farm Numbers, 1975-80;

Farms and Land in Farms, Final Estimates by States, 1979-1987;

Farms and Land in Farms, Final Estimates, 1988-1992; and

Farms and …

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Rights Info

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File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
    data were changed.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
    comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
    follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Average annual change from preceding year shown.

Headnotes

[As of June 1 (2,521 represents 2,521,000). Based on 1974 census definition;
for definition of farms and farmland, see text of this section.
Activities included as agriculture have undergone changes in recent years.
Consequent adjustments have resulted in a break in the data series between 1992 and 1993.
See below for more detail.
Data for census years have been adjusted for
underenumeration and are used as reference points along with data
from acreage and livestock surveys in estimating data for other
years. Minus sign (-) indicates decrease. See Appendix III]

Shape

table: [16, 34]

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YEAR Unit 1975 1976 1977 1978 Census 1979 1980 1981 1982 Census 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 Census 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 Census 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Census 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Census 2003 2004 2005.0 2006.0
Number of farms 1,000 2521.0 2497.0 2456.0 2436.0 2437.0 2440.0 2440.0 2407.0 2379.0 2334.0 2293.0 2250.0 2213.0 2201.0 2174.52 2145.82 2116.76 2107.84 2201.59 2197.69 2196.4 2190.5 2190.51 2192.33 2187.28 2166.78 2148.63 2135.36 2126.86 2112.97 2098.69 2089.79
Annual change 1 1,000 (X) -24.0 -41.0 -20.0 1.0 3.0 0.0 -33.0 -28.0 -45.0 -41.0 -43.0 -37.0 -12.0 -26.0 -29.0 -29.0 -9.0 93.75 -3.9 -1.29 -5.9 0.0100000000002 1.82 -5.05 -20.5 -18.15 -13.27 -8.5 -13.89 -14.28 -8.9
Land in farms Million acres 1059.0 1054.0 1048.0 1045.0 1042.0 1039.0 1034.0 1028.0 1023.0 1018.0 1012.073 1005.333 998.923 994.423 990.723 986.85 981.736 978.503 968.845 965.935 962.515 958.675 956.01 952.08 948.46 945.08 942.07 940.3 938.65 936.295 933.21 932.43
Average per farm Acres 420.0 422.0 427.0 429.0 428.0 426.0 424.0 427.0 430.0 436.0 441.0 447.0 451.0 452.0 456.0 460.0 464.0 464.0 440.0 440.0 438.0 438.0 436.0 434.0 434.0 436.0 438.0 440.0 441.0 443.0 445.0 446.0
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service,
Farms and Land in Farms, 1969-75
(Statistical Bulletin No. 594); Farm Numbers, 1975-80;
Farms and Land in Farms, Final Estimates by States, 1979-1987;
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Farm Numbers and Land in Farms, Final Estimates, 1998-2002;
Farms, Land in Farms, and Livestock Operations, annual.

Symbols

Notes (pg 2)

  • (X) Not applicable.

Tablenum

0802

Year

2008

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