The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service's (ERS) Food Availability Data System includes three distinct but related data series on food and nutrient availability for consumption. The data serve as popular proxies for actual consumption at the national level...

Introduction -- Background: USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service and Economic Research Service -- Dimensions of farm complexity -- Conceptual issues : defining farming, farms, farmers, and agriculture -- The growing complexity of farm business structure : implications for data...

Introduction -- What data users want, need, and use -- Business register -- Harmonization of questionnaires and data collection processes -- Sampling and estimation -- Editing, imputation, disclosure control, and quality standards -- Dissemination -- Toward an integrated annual business survey...

Introduction -- Administrative records, third-party data, and the American Community Survey -- Increasing American Community Survey participation through improved respondent communication -- References -- Appendixes.