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Who Does Dot Respond to the Agricultural Resource Management Survey and Does It Matter?
Author(s) -
Weber Jeremy G.,
Clay Dawn Marie
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1093/ajae/aas171
Subject(s) - respondent , agriculture , census , non response bias , survey data collection , sample (material) , resource (disambiguation) , confidence interval , economics , econometrics , agricultural economics , statistics , geography , demography , mathematics , political science , computer science , sociology , computer network , population , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography , law
The Agricultural Resource Management Survey is the primary annual source of information on U.S. farms, but in a typical year one‐third of sampled farms do not respond. We use Census of Agriculture data to study nonresponse to the survey and how it affects estimates in two econometric models. Despite larger farms responding less, the coefficients estimated from the respondent subsample always fall inside confidence intervals based on draws from the full sample of respondents and nonrespondents. Although nonresponse bias can vary by application, the findings suggest that bias is unlikely to undermine conclusions based on econometrics using respondent data.