Census Administration Manual Table of Contents

2008 Farm and Ranch Irrigation
Census Administrative Manual
TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 GENERAL
1.1 Background
1.2 Uses of FRIS
1.3 State Concerned
1.4 Legal Authority
1.5 Contents, Organization and Use of Manual
1.6 Distribution of Manuals
1.7 Recommenced Changes in Instructions
1.8 Terms and Definitions
2 ADMINISTRATION
2.1 State Supervisor’s Duty
2.1.1 Planning
2.1.2 Training
2.2 Telephoning About Problems
2.3 Project Codes
2.4 Outline of Field Offices’ Responsibilities
2.4.1 Pre-Survey Jobs
2.4.2 Survey Proper Jobs
2.5 Schedule of Survey Activities
2.6 Label Layout
3 SAMPLING
3.1 Target Population
3.2 Sample Size by State
3.3 Stratification
3.3.1 2008 FRIS Stratum Definition
3.3.2 2008 FRIS State Stratification
4 SURVEY MATERIALS
4.1 Questionnaires
4.2 Census Administrative Manual
4.3 Interviewer’s Manual

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5 DATA COLLECTION
5.1 Field Office Responsibilities for Data Collection
5.2 Pre-survey Activities
5.3 Pre-survey Publicity
5.4 Disposition of Tagged Records
5.5 When Response Rate is Below 60%
5.6 Status Codes
5.7 Correspondence
5.8 UAA’s
5.9 Supervision
5.10 Quality Control
6 EDITING
6.1 Pre-key Review
6.1.1 General Instructions
6.1.2 Pre-key Review Guidelines
Blank Reports
No Irrigation
6.1.2.1 Acreage
6.1.2.2 Land Use
6.1.2.3 Government Programs
6.1.2.4 Methods of Water Distribution
6.1.2.5 Acres Irrigated and Water Source
6.1.2.6 Water Transfers
6.1.2.7 Expenditures for Irrigation Facilities
6.1.2.8 Acres Harvested and Crop Yields
6.1.2.9 Method of Water Distribution by Crop
6.1.2.10 No. of Wells
6.1.2.11 Pumps other than Well Pumps
6.1.2.12 Energy Use on this Operation
6.1.2.13 Maintenance and Repair Costs
6.1.2.14 Labor Costs
6.1.2.15 Irrigation Practices
6.1.2.16 Other Uses of Water
6.1.2.17 Water Management Practices
6.1.2.18 Improvements to Irrigation Systems
6.1.2.19 Sources of Irrigation Information
6.1.2.20 Recycled and/or Reclaimed Water Use
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6.1.2.21 2007 Irrigated Land
6.1.2.22 Value of Sales
6.2 Computer Edit Summary
6.2.1 Section 1
6.2.2 Section 2
6.2.3 Section 3
6.2.4 Section 4
6.2.5 Section 5
6.2.6 Section 6
6.2.7 Section 7
6.2.8 Section 8
6.2.9 Section 9
6.2.10 Section 10
6.2.11 Section 11
6.2.12 Section 12
6.2.13 Section 13
6.2.14 Section 14
6.2.15 Section 15
6.2.16.Section 16
6.2.17 Section 17
6.2.18 Section 18
6.2.19 Section 19
6.2.20 Section 20
6.2.21 Section 21
6.2.22 Section 22
7 PROCESSING
7.1 General
7.2 Processing at NITC
7.2.1 FRIS Data Libraries
7.2.2 Job Control Language
7.2.3 Additional Copies of Output
7.3 Data Entry layout
7.3.1 Raw Data Entry Layout
7.3.2 Update/Delete Data Entry Layout
7.4 Loading Data from FRIS to NITC
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7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8

Edit
Missing Reports
Summary
Clean-up

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