Evaluating Errors in Administrative Data
Evaluating Errors in Administrative Data
| Date: | Friday, March 15 |
| Time: | 12:00 pm -- 1:00 pm |
| Place: | Snedecor 2113 |
| Speaker: | Michael Price, Department of Statistics, ISU |
Abstract:
There is increasing interest in the use of administrative data as input to the estimation process for survey data.
Administrative data are subject to many of the same errors as survey data, and it is of interest to evaluate
these errors and possibly adjust for them. We consider an example of Farm Service Agency (FSA) administrative data,
which will be combined with crop survey data and other auxiliary information.
The FSA is in charge of administering the farm programs that the United States Department of Agriculture sponsors.
As a result, the FSA obtains acreage information on crops and fields from farmers who are part of these farm programs or in crop insurance.
The FSA provides summaries of this data to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
The goal of this project is to use this information to create an estimate of the number of planted acres of a particular crop in a particular county.