Other Farm Labor Information Sources

In addition to the NAWS, there are several other Federal sources of agricultural employment and farm labor data:

• The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Census of Agriculture http://www.agcensus.usda.gov collects data from agricultural employers on the number of workers they hired and their expenditures for hired and contract workers.

• The USDA's Farm Labor Survey http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1063 collects data from farm employers on how many workers they hired, average hourly earnings, and the number of hours worked during the survey reference week.

• The USDA's Agricultural Resource Management Survey, Costs and Returns Report (section 26 of the core questionnaire) http://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Ag_Resource_Management/ asks farm employers how much they paid in cash wages to family, hired and contract labor, and their expenditures for custom work.

• The Current Population Survey (CPS) http://www.bls.gov/cps/ and the American Community Survey (ACS) https://www.census.gov/acs/www/ are household surveys that ask respondents about their most recent job. Occupation information can be used to identify some types of farm workers, e.g., crop and livestock workers.