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Farm Business and Household Survey Data: Customized Data Summaries from ARMS
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Select among survey data sets to build custom reports, refine queries with specific samples/populations, group summary statistics for comparisons, and choose among output options for results (tables, charts, etc).

Choose a report

  • Report By Series:
    Columns are series, subgroups are years. Report topics can be collapsed.
  • Report By Year: Columns are years, subgroups are series. Report topics can be collapsed.

Data presentation

Report layouts

Each cross tabulations of each survey can be displayed in three different layouts.

Report with columns of groups

Report with columns of groups

Report layouts vary mainly by the cross tabulation column: by groups, by years, or by geography.

The display of content within each row group can be collapsed by toggling the expand/collapse button button.

To select a different layout use the following button.

Back to Report Listing

Report with columns of years

Report with columns of groups

Report with columns of geography

Report with columns of geography

Selecting report content

The options available in the menus are interdependent and will refresh as selections are made. Changes to menus in the top two rows will always cause the parameters window to refresh.

parameters window

Multiple selections can be made in the parameters window, reports are generated by clicking the view report button..To the extent possible selections will persist to aid data exploration. Selections made in the lower rows of the parameter window will not cause the upper menu options to refresh. Once options are set use the View Report button to generate a new report.

parameters window

Subject coverage varies by geography and year. The years available are also dependent on the geography.

Subject
          US/State
                      Year(s)


The cross tabulation grouping options have the same selection listing, excluding the initial option; which is to say, you can not have a cross tabulation with an option by the same option. The options "All acres" and "All farms" both identify the survey universe and provide an exception to the rule used to report the survey universe values without any breakouts.

Survey - Farm finances

Cross tab groups
          Cross tab groups - Farm finances 		Survey - Crop production practices

Cross tab groups
          Cross tab groups - Crop production practices


Data model

A somewhat simplified data model that illustrates how structure tables are used to populate the menu interface to specify parameters to shape the data sets returned. The interdependencies of the structure tables/menus result in the menu refresh as selections are made. The data from the SAS files is a sparse matrix, a view is used to enable the display of report topics in either a row set or a column set.
 
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Updated date: October 27, 2009