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Column Name: fvalc Span: 1910-1959 Units: Thousands of dollars Format: Integer  Value
of crops The value of crops sold includes not only general farm crops, but also flowers and plants, nursery products and forest products of farms. Values of crop production are enumerated figures. Source (where directly obtained): Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source:  For the value of crops sold, wherever a unit of value could be used, such as the value per bushel or per ton, the farmer was asked to report the acreage and production of each crop but not the value. The Census Bureau, by special schedule, determined average farm values per unit for such crops, and these averages were used to compute crop values. Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source:  The value of all crops sold includes field and orchard crops, vegetables, and the products of farm gardens. The values were obtained by multiplying unit values by the number of units in each class. The unit values were obtained by the Census Bureau for price-reporting districts.
Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1930. Agriculture, Volume II, Part 3. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932.  Total value of all crops harvested includes: cereals, other grains and seeds, hay and forage, tobacco, Irish and sweet potatoes, vegetables for sale and for farm households' use, fruits and nuts, sales of horticultural specialties, and all other crops. Values were calculated by counties using county average unit values. However, for three items – vegetables for sale, vegetables for farm household use, and horticultural specialties – values were enumerated instead of production, because of the difficulty of finding a common production unit for purposes of enumeration. Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1940 Agriculture, Volume I, Part 4. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1942.  The value of the various crops sold is for the crop year immediately preceding the census. The Census Bureau calculated values of crops sold using county unit prices obtained from price-reporting districts (in this case, groups of counties). Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Seventeenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1950 Agriculture, Volume I, Part 33. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1952. Figures for value of crops sold relate to the crops harvested during the crop year, regardless of when they were sold. Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: |
