Detailed data files required to fill many economic models are not available Direct construction of a needed file often proves to be prohibitively expensive The author of this article poses one alternative to synthesize a file by merging two or more existing ones that. between them, contain the...

Research workers in agricultural economics will find a wealth of source material in the 1950 Census of Agriculture. Inclusion of new items in the questionnaire accounts for some of the increase over previous censuses in the quantity of data published. Of special interest to research workers are...

Books Reviewed: "Introduction to Economics for Agriculture"; "Law and the Farmer"; "Demand Analysis"; "Studies in the Structure of the American Economy"; "Productivity and Economic Progress"; "Economic Change"; "Crete. A Case Study of an Underdeveloped Area"; "United Nations Statistical Yearbook...

A program of estimates covering eight classes of nursery products and four selected out flowers grown in 5 States was undertaken in late 1956 by the Fruit and Vegetable Statistics Branch of the Agricultural Estimates Division, AMS. The initial survey was an almost complete enumeration with...

This paper examines the magnitude of error associated with linear approximations of nonlinear variables based on Taylor's Series. Little attention has been given to the error term in previous empirical studies. This paper presents the mathematical technique for the single-variable and...