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| Food Supply Veterinary Medicine > Terminology
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| Data Sources & Terminology
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Data Sources:
- American Veterinary Medical Association
- Used information from the AVMA database to acquire the number of Food Animal Veterinarians as of December 31, 2006.
- United States Department of Agriculture – National Agriculture Statistics Service
- Based off of the 2002 Census of Agriculture Volume 1 – County Level Data
Terminology/Key:
- Total Food Animal Veterinarians
- The total food animal veterinarians reported consist of all active AVMA members (Regular, Recent Graduates, and Educational) and Non-members (Excludes non-members born prior to 1936 and non-members who received their veterinary degree prior to 1962) and who have a species category of food animal exclusive, predominant or mixed*.
- *Mixed Animal counted in the food animal veterinarian category consisted of all those who had 30% or more involvement with one or more of the following species: Bovine, Porcine, Ovine/Camelid, Cervid, Poultry
- Total Food Animals
- Three categories from the USDA census were used for each state and combined to make up the total food animals reported. The categories are: Cattle and Calves, Hogs & Pigs and Sheep & Lambs
- The column within the table listed as "Counties with 0 Veterinarians" has three labels
- x: Counties with 0 Veterinarians where there are less than 5,000 food animals
- y: Counties with 0 Veterinarians where there are between 5,000 and 25,000 food animals
- z: Counties with 0 Veterinarians where there are more than 25,000 food animals
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American Veterinary Medical Association
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