Overview of Changes to Questionnaire as a Result of Testing

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2017 Census of Agriculture

Overview of Changes to Questionnaire as a Result of Testing

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The following text provides an overview of the major changes that were made to the 2017 Census of Agriculture questionnaires since their initial submission in June of 2016.

  • A100 – Long U.S. Form

  • A200 – Short U.S. Form


A100 & A200 (note: not all sections are in A200)


Land Rented or Leased from Others for Cash:

  1. Minor wording changes to #2.


Personal Characteristics:

  1. Entire section moved earlier in questionnaire.

  2. Changed some of the decisions in #3 (but there are still five decisions).


Hay and Forage Crops:

  1. Removed the “Amount used or to be used on this operation for feed, etc.” question from #4, #5, #6, and #7.


Field Crops:

  1. Added a bullet with instructions in #3.

  2. Minor changes to the crop list below #3.


Nursery, Greenhouse, Floriculture, Sod, Mushrooms, Vegetable Seeds, and Propagation Materials:

  1. Minor change to the instructions in #4.


Vegetables, Potatoes, and Melons:

  1. Minor changes to the crop list below #4.


Fruit, Nuts, and Berries:

  1. Minor changes to the crop list below #4.


Horses, Ponies, Mules, Burros, and Donkeys:

  1. Changed name of section from “Equine”.


Food Marketing Practices:

  1. Reworded (and reduced in size) the list of marketing venues in #2b.


Renewable Energy:

  1. Removed the screening question on #1 (this was done to reduce the number of times #2 was skipped).





A200

Farm Labor:

  1. Moved the section earlier in the questionnaire (this was a space-issue – there was no room for it where it originally was after the Internet question was added to the “Practices” section).


Practices:

  1. Added a “wind rights” question to #1 (it is now #1b).

  2. Added #4 (Internet access).  This question mistakenly left off of the version we previously submitted to OMB.





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