DOI: 10.3886/icpsr35206
title: United States Agriculture Data, 1840 - 2012
title: Archival Version

description: This collection includes county-level data from the United States Censuses of Agriculture for the years 1840 to 2012. The files provide data about the number, types, output, and prices of various agricultural products, as well as information on the amount, expenses, sales, values, and production of machinery. Most of the basic crop output data apply to the previous harvest year. Data collected also included the population and value of livestock, the number of animals slaughtered, and the size, type, and value of farms. Part 46 of this collection contains data from 1980 through 2010. Variables in part 46 include information such as the average value of farmland, number and value of buildings per acre, food services, resident population, composition of households, and unemployment rates.
description: The data are not weighted.
description: Response Rates: Not applicable.
description: The sample was the universe of agricultural operating units. For 1969-2007, data were taken from computer files from the Census Bureau and the United States Department of Agriculture.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Farm Land Value Data Set (County and State) 1850-1959 DS2: 1840 County and State DS3: 1850 County and State DS4: 1860 County and State DS5: 1870 County and State DS6: 1880 County and State DS7: 1890 County and State DS8: 1900 County and State DS9: 1910 County and State DS10: 1920 County and State, Dataset 1 DS11: 1920 County and State, Dataset 2 DS12: 1925 County and State DS13: 1930 County and State, Dataset 1 DS14: 1930 County and State, Dataset 2 DS15: 1935 County and State DS16: 1940 County and State, Dataset 1 DS17: 1940 County and State, Dataset 2 DS18: 1940 County and State, Dataset 3 DS19: 1940 County and State, Dataset 4 (Water) DS20: 1945 County and State DS21: 1950 County and State, Dataset 1 DS22: 1950 Crops, County and State, Dataset 2 DS23: 1950 County, Dataset 3 DS24: 1950 County and State, Dataset 4 DS25: 1954 County and State, Dataset 1 DS26: 1954 Crops, County and State, Dataset 2 DS27: 1959 County and State, Dataset 1 DS28: 1959 Crops, County and State, Dataset 2 DS29: 1959 County, Dataset 3 DS30: 1964 Dataset 1 DS31: 1964 Crops, County and State, Dataset 2 DS32: 1964 County, Dataset 3 DS33: 1969 All Farms, County and State, Dataset 1 DS34: 1969 Farms 2500, County and State, Dataset 2 DS35: 1969 Crops, County and State, Dataset 3 DS36: 1974 All Farms, County and State, Dataset 1 DS37: 1974 Farms 2500, County and State, Dataset 2 DS38: 1974 Crops, County and State, Dataset 3 DS39: 1978 County and State DS40: 1982 County and State DS41: 1987 County and State DS42: 1992 County and State DS43: 1997 County and State DS44: 2002 County and State DS45: 2007 County and State DS46: State and County Data, United States, 1980-2010 DS47: 2012 County and State
description: Farms within United States counties and states. Smallest Geographic Unit: FIPS code
description: This information was obtained from the United States Census Bureau's Web site.Please note that part 46 of this collection contains very large data files.The data contain basic information from 1850 to 1950 taken from ICPSR Study #3, "Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970." Additionally, data files for years 1840-1900 and 1910, 1920, and the Farm Land Value dataset were taken from ICPSR #2896 "Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2002."The size of the datasets resulted in many limitations during processing; therefore this collection has been minimally processed by ICPSR.