The National Income and Product Accounts: Estimating Farm Income by Type of Farm

U.S farms are becoming increasingly specialized, limiting the usefulness of traditional aggregate analysis. This report identifies data limitations, advantages in estimating farm income by type of farm, and the implications of SIC-based measures. The potential relationships between the SIC type of farm income estimates and the other farm sector accounts, including productivity, costs of production, and input-output accounts, are analyzed.

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Year of publication:	1985-12
Authors:	Simunek, Richard ; Somwaru, Agapi ; Suddendorf, Sandra ; Lucier, Gary
Institutions:	Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture
Subject:	Farm income \| farm policy \| Standard Industrial Classification \| economic accounting \| Agricultural and Food Policy \| Agricultural Finance

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Technical Bulletins.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Economic Research Service>Technical Bulletins Number 157007
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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