Agricultural Resource Management Survey Phase 2

The target population for the ARMS is all agricultural establishments with more than $1,000 in agricultural sales (or potential sales). NASS uses a dual frame approach, consisting of list frame and area frame components, to provide complete coverage of this target population. The ARMS 2 is selected as a follow-on survey to the ARMS Phase 1 Screening Survey. The ARMS 1 sample is selected from the NASS list frame using Sequential Interval Poisson Sampling. Each eligible operation in the list frame is given a positive probability of selection. A given operation's probability of selection is calculated based on farm value of sales (FVS) strata membership and acreage levels of the ARMS 2 commodities. After the screening phase, operations which report positive acreage for ARMS 2 target commodities may be subsampled for the ARMS 2. If there are not adequate usable records in ARMS 1 then inaccessible records from ARMS 1 are sampled as needed to meet the commodity sample targets by state for ARMS 2.