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...

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Accounting and Data Foundations -- 3 Home Production -- 4 The Role of the Family in the Production of Human Capital -- 5 Education -- 6 Health -- 7 The Government and Private Nonprofit Sectors -- 8 The Environment --...

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I Workshop Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Benefits of Data Sharing to the Statistical Agencies -- 3 Research and Policy Perspectives on the Benefits of Business Data Sharing -- 4 Key Points from the Presentations: Directions for the Future --...

FrontMatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Overview -- 2 Intangible Assets in a Knowledge Economy -- 3 Macroeconomic Implications of Intangible Assets -- 4 Intangibles in the Firm and in Financial Markets -- 5 Intangibles and Government Measurement -- 6 Intangibles and Government Policy --...