U.S. County-Level Agricultural Land Sizes and Growth Rates, 1997-2017

From 1997 to 2017, this dataset contains U.S. county-level data on agricultural land sizes and their growth rates, analyzed using parametric density estimation. It was created by Sherzod B. Akhundjanov and shared on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The analysis evaluates the fit of various probability distributions, including Burr and normal/Student's t mixtures, to characterize farm size distributions.

Use Cases

• Evaluate parametric distribution fits for farm size data based on the described Burr and mixture models.
• Model agricultural land growth rates over time using the described 2- and 3-component Student's t mixtures.
• Inform agricultural policy discussions concerning farm size and structure based on the empirical distribution analysis.
• Benchmark density estimation techniques for economic data using the provided normal mixture components for farm sizes.

Strengths

• Data spans a 20-year time range from 1997 to 2017.
• Analysis compares multiple distribution families, including 3-, 4-, and 5-component normal mixtures.
• Dataset is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• File size is 545.4 KB, indicating a focused and manageable dataset.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description focuses on methodological results rather than raw data structure.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely compiled from U.S. agricultural census or survey data, as inferred from the description of county-level analysis.

Time Range

1997-2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-10 14:00:25; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States, county-level