Counting With Statistics
Technology To Count On
Good Communication Counts
Count on NASS
This State Counts
100
When eating M&M's, this term is used to identify the chances of getting a certain color.
What is Probability?
100
This form of social media is used to share statistical facts from our surveys (gets confused with a singing bird).
What is Twitter?
100
Before NASS uses new questionnaires, we do this to check for issues.
What is Pre-test?
100
An agency that provides estimates on farm acreage, production, stocks, prices, and income.
What is NASS?
100
This state contributes most honey.
What is North Dakota?
200
Crop production can be measured in 2 different ways. One is tons. This is the other
What is Bushels?
200
Handheld computers that we use to collect data when we interview farmers.
What is an iPad?
200
NASS uses this to distribute findings.
What is a publication?
200
This image has a silo and bar graphs in it.
What is the NASS Logo?
200
This state in the Pacific Northwest produces the most apples than any other state?
What is Washington?
300
A small group of people. If you pick them carefully, their answers can represent all the people you didn't talk to.
What is a sample?
300
These machines are used to take pictures of the US from space. NASS uses them as one way to measure what farmers are growing.
What are satellites?
300
We do this on paper (mail), on telephone (calling), on the internet (one-line/web), and talking to an interviewee.
What is a data collection?
300
The Administrator of NASS.
Who is Hubert Hamer?
300
This state that borders Mexico has the largest cattle inventory in the US.
What is Texas?
400
The process of dividing an entire population into gruops based on size or type of farm.
What is stratification?
400
The tool NASS uses to have meetings face-to-face on a screen in meeting rooms.
What is VTC (Video-TeleConferencing)
400
This technique helps NASS make sure that farmers understand our questions and that we get the answers we need.
What are cognitive interviews?
400
A complete count of the US farms and ranches and the people who operate them.
What is the Census of Agriculture?
400
This state is the top grower of this commodity (fruit or vegetables) which is very popular around Halloween?
What is Illinois?
500
At NASS the calculation of the value, number or quantity of an agricultural commodity
What is estimation?
500
The name of the tool NASS uses for Web/Online data collection.
What is EDR (Electronic Data Review)?
500
This is the marketing slogan for the 2017 Census of Agriculture.
What is "Sign up to be Counted"?
500
This is the largest annual NASS survey and designed to account for every acre of land, all agricultural activities, and land uses with segment boundaries.
What is the June Area Survey?
500
This state is the largest producer of this bird that is popular around Thanksgiving.
What is Minnesota?
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