return visit or a telephone call. In all cases for which 

 a printout was produced, an action was taken. Cor- 

 rections were keyed into the computer and the 

 record passed through the edit again. 



4. Island and Municipio Totals for selected data 

 items — A listing was produced that provided an 

 up-to-date tally for selected data items by municipio 

 and for Puerto Rico. These totals were used to detect 

 any potential coverage problems. If a potential 

 problem was detected, an examination of the results 

 and enumeration of this area in question was con- 

 ducted. All detected potential problems were 

 solved at this time. 



5. Scope determination — The microcomputer allowed 

 for a quick and efficient manner in which all cases 

 could be determined to be in or out of the scope of 

 the census. All cases that were rejected as being out 

 of scope were examined by analysts for verification. 

 Those that were in scope were hand edited and 

 returned to data keying. 



OFFICE PROCESSING 



The encoded data on magnetic tapes and the report 

 forms were shipped from Puerto Rico to the Bureau of the 

 Census in Suitland, Md., where they were further 

 reviewed. The tapes were subjected to a detailed item- 

 by-item electronic computer program edit for consist- 

 ency and completeness. When data were inconsistent or 

 missing, the computer program either corrected the error 

 or printed a code that indicated the type and location of 

 the problem. These data were individually reviewed for 

 accuracy and corrected, if necessary. 



Following the review and verification of the data for 

 accuracy, the data were tabulated by the computer. The 

 tabulated data were reviewed again by subject matter 

 specialists for consistency, completeness, and possible 

 disclosure of information for individual farms. Final cor- 

 rections were made at this point prior to publication. 



DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS 



The following definitions and explanations relate to 

 items which are not fully described in the tables. Most of 

 the definitions come from the report form and the instruc- 

 tions to the enumerators. For an exact wording of the 

 questions, see appendix C. 



Operator — The term "operator" designates a person who 

 operates a farm, either actually doing the work or 

 directly supervising the work. This person may be the 

 owner, a member of the owner's household, a hired 

 manager, or a tenant, but the person cannot be an 

 agregado or a sharecropper. If the person rents land to 

 others, the person is considered the operator only of the 

 land retained for personal use. In the case of a partner- 

 ship, only one partner is counted as the operator. The 

 number of farm operators is the same as the number of 

 farms. 



Farms — Figures for "farms" are the number of farms (or 

 operators) reporting a specified item. If a municipio con- 

 tained 1,200 farms, but only 300 farms had cattle and 

 calves on hand as of July 1 , 1 983, the figure for "farms" 

 for the item "cattle and calves" would be 300. This defini- 

 tion is the same as "farms" in the 1 978 and 1 974 cen- 

 suses, and is equivalent to the term "farms reporting" in 

 the 1959 and prior censuses. Where applicable, figures 

 are given for the number of farms not reporting items 

 when the intent was to report data for all farms, e.g., place 

 of residence of the operator. 



Land area — The approximate land area of Puerto Rico is 

 2.3 million cuerdas. A cuerda is equivalent to 0.971 2 of 

 an acre or 0.3930 of a hectare. A centesimo is one- 

 hundredth of a cuerda. 



Land in farms — This item includes land used for crops, 

 pasture, or grazing; also, woodland and wasteland not 

 actually under cultivation nor used for pasture or grazing 

 providing it was part of the operator's total operation. 

 Woodland or wasteland held for nonagricultural purposes 

 were excluded. Land in farms is an operating unit concept 

 and includes land owned and operated as well as land 

 rented from others. Land used rent free was to be reported 

 as land rented from others. 



Land owned (full and part owners) — This item includes all 

 land that the operator owned, his wife or both held under 

 title, purchase contract or mortgage, or as heir or trustee 

 of an undivided estate at the time of the enumeration. 

 Land operated by a hired manager covers all tracts of land 

 managed for one or more employers by a person hired for 

 a salary. Land managed by a hired manager also was con- 

 sidered owned. A hired manager was considered to be the 

 operator of the land he/she managed because this person 

 was responsible for the agricultural operations on the land 

 and frequently supervised others in performing those 

 operations. 



Land rented from other (tenants) — This item includes all 

 land that the operator rented or leased from others or 

 used rent free. 



Land rented to others — This item includes all land rented 

 or leased to others for cash or a share of the crops or 

 livestock, and land rented from others and then sub- 

 leased to others. 



Land in two or more municipios An individual farm was 

 counted in only one municipio even if the land was located 

 in two or more municipios. The land in each farm was 

 tabulated as being in the operator's principal municipio. 

 The principal municipio was defined as the one where the 

 largest value of the agricultural products was raised or pro- 

 duced. It was usually, but not always, where the operator 

 reported all or the largest part of the total land. 



Land use — The land was classified according to the way 

 it was used during the period between July 1 , 1 982, and 

 June 30, 1983. This clasification includes three major 

 groups. 



A-2 APPENDIX A 



1982 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE 



