Effect of 1978 Area Sample on Census Comparability: 1982 and 1978-Con. 



[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text] 



Data published in 

 1982 Census of Agriculture 



Data published in 

 1978 Census of Agriculture 



1978 

 total^ 



Portion of 



total from 1 978 



area sample^ 



Percent of 



1978 total 



represented 



by area sample 



portion 



Farms by type of organization: 



Individual or family 



Partnership 



Corporation - 



Other— cooperative, estate or trust, institutional, etc. 



Tenure of operator: 



Full owners 



Part owners — 



Tenants 



Operators by principal occupation: 



Farming 



Other than farming _ 



Female operators: 



Farms .-_ number. 



Land in farms acres. 



Operators by race: 



White -- 



Black and other races 



Corn for grain or seed _ _ farms, 



acres. 

 Wheat for grain farms. 



acres. 

 Hay— alfalfa, other tame, small grain, wild, grass silage, green chop, etc. 

 (see text) farms, 



acres. 

 Vegetables harvested for sale .-_ farms. 



acres. 

 Land in orchards farms. 



acres. 



Cattle and calves inventory farms. 



number. 

 Hogs and pigs inventory farms. 



number. 

 Chickens 3 months old or older inventory farms. 



number. 



Estimated market value of all machinery and equipment* $1,000, 



Energy and petroleum products^ __ $1,000, 



Hired farm labor, workers working 150 days or more* farms, 



number. 



30 426 



2 983 



1 056 



177 



24 715 

 7 156 

 2 771 



15 213 

 19 429 



2 187 

 707 780 



34 119 

 523 



352 

 12 860 



4 997 

 1 159 360 



17 102 



1 068 102 



1 696 



145 201 



5 260 

 85 969 



22 119 

 1 599 684 



3 596 

 120 584 



6 398 

 3 176 773 



980 389 

 72 356 



4 468 

 15 555 



5 793 



298 



10 



38 



4 861 

 594 

 684 



1 364 

 4 775 



282 

 23 373 



6 046 



93 



36 

 36 

 112 



7 600 



2 740 



51 339 

 136 

 452 



1 002 



3 861 



4 249 



52 887 



1 105 

 6 677 



2 449 



53 094 



42 730 



2 353 



87 



103 



19.0 



10.0 



.8 



21.5 



19.7 



8.3 



24.7 



9.0 

 24.6 



12.9 

 3.3 



17.7 

 17.8 



10.2 



.3 



2.2 



.7 



16.0 



4.B 



8.0 



.3 



19.0 

 4.5 



19.2 

 3.3 



30.7 

 5.5 



38.3 

 1.7 



4.4 

 3.3 



1.9 

 .7 



Mncludes data only for farms on 1978 mail list— excludes area sample data. 

 ^Includes mail list enumeration and area sample data. 

 ^Data from farms not on mail list. 

 *Data are based on a sample of farms. 

 'Retabulated 1978 data for 1982 comparability. 



B-2 APPENDIX B 



1982 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE 



