AGRICULTURE_CENSUS_1997_IN: Agriculture Census of Indiana 1997 (U.S. Geological Survey, 1:2,000,000, Polygon Shapefile)

USGS National Atlas metadata states

"This data set portrays the National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture's 1997 Census data for the United States,
presented by county.  There are 25 categories of data which include
information about farms, crops, livestock, values of products, and farm
operator characteristics."

USGS National Atlas metadata states

"These data are intended for geographic display and analysis at the
national level, and for large regional areas.  The data should be
displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:2,000,000-scale data."

Complete
Data update frequency: None planned

Who created the data: U.S. Geological Survey (creation), Bernardin, Lochmueller and Associates (conversion)

Type of data: Vector digital data
Data processing environment: ESRI ArcView version 3.2 shapefile format

Process description: From the AG-CENSUS the following database files were extracted 010001 Farms(numbers) 010015 Total cropland (acres) 010017 Total cropland, harvested cropland (acres) 010021 Market value of agricultural products sold, average per farm (dollars) 010022 Market value of agricultural products sold-crops, including nursery and greenhouse crops ($1,000) 010023 Market value of agricultural products sold - livestock, poultry, and their products ($1,000) 010024 Farms by value of sales: Less than $2,500 010025 Farms by value of sales: $2,500 to $4,999 010031 Total farm production expenses ($1,000) 010057 Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold (number) 010059 Corn for grain or seed (acres) 010068 Wheat for grain (acres) 010083 Cotton (acres) 010089 Soybeans for beans (acres) 010113 Vegetables harvested for sale (acres) 010115 Land in orchards (acres) 080009 Irrigated land (acres) 090024 Selected machinery/equip-wheel tractors,100 horsepower (PTO) or more (number) 110049 Operators by sex: Female (farms) 110051 Individual or family (sole proprietorship) (farms) 140002 Cattle and calves inventory (number) 150002 Hogs and pigs (number) 310344 Pecans (in shell), total (acres) 330044 Nursery crops, sales ($1,000) 350001 Black and other races, land in farms (farms) In the databases files, the field names were edited to include the table number, the text number fields were changed to numeric number fields, and fields flagged with D (data withheld to avoid disclosing information for individual farms) were changed from 0 to -9999. The individual database files were converted to dBASE IV files and combined into a single database file. This file was converted to an INFO table which was then joined to the edited ATLAS-1990CNTY coverage, and the result is this data set.
Source used: ATLAS-1990CNTY
Source used: AG-CENSUS
Source produced: Agriculture Census of the United States - 1997
Process date: 20000417

Process description: The attribute definition for x350001_97 was changed from Black and other races, land in farms (farms) to Black and other minority races, land in farms (farms).
Source used: Agriculture Census of the United States - 1997
Source produced: Agriculture Census of the United States - 1997
Process date: 20010507

Process description: Bernardin, Lochmueller and Associates selected only Indiana counties from the national dataset. Fields were renamed to text categories to reflect the content.
Source used: Agriculture Census of the United States - 1997
Source produced: AGRICULTURE_CENSUS_1997_IN: Agriculture Census of Indiana 1997 (Derived from U.S. Geological Survey, 1:2,000,000, Polygon Shapefile)
Process date: 20020722

Process description: This metadata was pre-parsed and parsed using CNS (Chew and Spit. v 2.6.1) and MP (Metadata Parser, v 2.7.1) software written by Peter N. Schweitzer (United States Geological Survey). The errors generated by MP were all addressed and corrected, except that no values were assigned to "Abscissa_Resolution" and "Ordinate_Resolution."
Process date: 20030620

Process description: Metadata imported.
Source used: C:\DOCUME~1\cdintama\LOCALS~1\Temp\xml5877.tmp

Media: Online
Scale denominator: 20000101
Contribution: Spatial and attribute information

Media: CD-ROM
Contribution: Attribute information

Media: Digital Vector data
Scale denominator: 2000000
Contribution: ArcView Shapefile data Online_Linkage: <http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html

USGS metadata reports no information on horizontal accuracy

Vertical accuracy was not a factor in the digital production
of the data set.

Shapefile Attribute table
Source: U.S. Geological Survey metadata