Interpretation of National Resources Inventory (NRI) Tabular Data
EXAMPLE
##### Data for the year 1997 #####
(1)
| Basin Name(2) |
Other est(3) |
Other err(4) |
Cropland_cultivated est(5) |
Cropland_cultivated err(4) |
| Other(3) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Lake Superior Basin |
0 |
0 |
14.8 |
10.878 |
| Mississippi Headwaters |
0 |
0 |
2763.3 |
92.008 |
| Minnesota River Basin |
0 |
0 |
8591.1 |
109.464 |
| St. Croix River Basin |
0 |
0 |
267 |
25.26 |
| Upper Mississippi-Black-Root |
0 |
0 |
2803.7 |
56.019 |
| Red River Basin |
0 |
0 |
5187.4 |
128.523 |
| Rainy River Basin |
0 |
0 |
99.9 |
26.954 |
| Total |
0 |
0 |
19731.2 |
207.727 |
(1) Year of inventory
(2) Name of Planning Basin
(3) Estimate of categories other than those specified in additional columns or
rows. Will be equal to 0 if data universe does not contain additional
categories.
(4) Estimate of the standard error associated with the value estimate. The
margin of error at the 95% confidence limit can be calculated by multiplying
the error by 1.96.
(5) Value estimate. In this example values are in acres/1000. For example, the
Lake Superior Basin has 14,800 acres of cultivated cropland.
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