WHY THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBERS OF WOMEN AND HISPANIC ORIGIN FARMERS?
In the past, coverage evaluation has shown that minority farm operators have been missed from the census mail list more often than white operators. The total number of minority operators including estimates of undercoverage has been available for most censuses since 1978 in a statistical appendix to the full Volume 1 publication. The new coverage procedures allow NASS to present a better estimate of the total number of minority farm operators, including those not on the census mail list.
