Vegetables and Pulses Scope of Data Products
Machine readable comma-separated value (.csv) data file notes.
8/1/2024

Suggested citation: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. (2024). 
Vegetables and pulses data product scope documentation. 

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Questions concerning the development, use, or interpretation of these
data should be addressed to:

 Wilma V. Davis, Seth Wechsler, and Catharine Weber
 USDA/Economic Research Service/Market and Trade Economics Division/Crops Branch

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Machine readable .csv files containing general scope documentation on the following data products:
- Vegetables and Pulses Yearbook Tables
- Commodity Highlights Visualization
- Vegetables and Pulses Data - Trade by Commodity and Trade and Prices by Category
- Selected Weekly Fresh-Market Vegetable Movement and Price

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This file was made available on August 1, 2024. 

General scope of each data product for fresh and processed vegetables and for dry pulse
crops are included. 

 - Variable names are contained in the first row: 
	Product...............(Data product) 
	Years.................(Year(s) of observation) 
	Commodities...........(Vegetables; Dry beans including chickpeas; Mushrooms; 
							Vegetables and pulses excluding mushrooms; Vegetables primary; 
							Dry beans including garbanzos/chickpeas; Dry beans; Dry peas; Lentils; Chickpeas) 
	Categories............(Availability; Season Average Price; Supply; Trade Shares; Trade volume; 
							Trade value; Trade unit value; Cash Receipts; Area harvested; Consumer Price Index; 
							Producer Price Index; Retail prices; Advertised retail prices; FOB shipping-point prices; 
							Market volume)
	Location..............(National, Country, State)
	Frequency.............(Update freqency - Annual, Monthly, Five years)  
	Availability..........(Notes for the data point)
	Source................(Data source(s) for the data point)

 - The .csv data file contains 10 rows of data, one data point per row.
	These data outline the scope for the Vegetables and Pulses data products.

 - Area harvested data for mushrooms are excluded as USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service does not publish area harvested for mushrooms. 
 	The crops with area harvested may include crops unavailable in the USDA, Economic Research Service Vegetables and Pulses Yearbook. 

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Sources: These data products combine information from USDA, Economic Research Service; 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service; U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau; 
California County Agricultural Commissioners; USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service, Market News; California Dry Bean Advisory Board;
North Dakota State University, North Dakota Dry Bean Stock Report; National Food Processors Association; California League of Food Processors; 
National Canners Association (NFPA); Statistics Canada; National Kraut Packers Association.