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Understanding Rural America

Appendix Table


Appendix table 1--Selected population, income, and employment
characteristics for counties, by county type(1)


Item                       Unit     Farming          Mfg     Service      Retire
-----------------    ----------     -------      -------    --------    --------
Counties              Number(2)         556          506         323         190

Nonmetro             Percent(3)         9.1         31.0        18.8        10.2
population, 1990

Population growth,   Percent(4)        -6.9          1.5         6.3        22.7
1980-90

Persons in           Percent(4)        18.9         16.9        16.5        16.3
poverty, 1990

Net migration        Percent(4)       -11.0         -3.1         1.3        18.3
rate, 1980-90

Persons per square    Number(4)        11.8         59.2        43.4        38.3
mile, 1990

Per capita income,   Dollars(4)      14,743       13,081      14,384      13,698
1989

Per capita income    Percent(4)        11.6         13.2        10.6        12.6
growth, 1979-89

Median family        Dollars(4)      24,394       26,936      27,677      26,657
income, 1989

Median family        Percent(4)        -1.6           .7         -.1         4.8
income growth,
1979-89

Total earnings,      Dollars(5)  39,170,938  145,575,789  87,491,170  41,654,450
1989

Total earnings       Percent(3)        -6.1          6.0         8.5        25.9
growth, 1979-89

Total jobs, 1989      Number(6)   2,109,406    7,682,247   4,854,535   2,366,293

Total jobs growth,   Percent(3)        -1.2         10.5        17.8        34.3
1979-89

Earnings per job,    Dollars(3)      18,570       18,950      18,023      17,603
1989

Earnings per job     Percent(3)        -5.0         -4.0        -8.0        -6.2
growth, 1979-89

Unemployment rate,   Percent(4)         5.5          6.8         6.2         6.6
1989


---------------------------------  Table 1 continued -------------------------------
Appendix table 1 -- Selected population, income, and employment characteristics for
counties, by county type

Item                       Unit     Federal     Poverty     Nonmetro          Metro
                                      lands
-----------------    ----------   ---------     -------     --------     ----------
Counties              Number(2)         270         535        2,276            813

Nonmetro             Percent(3)        10.7        18.8        100.0             --
population, 1990

Population growth,   Percent(4)         9.0        -1.2           .6           14.5
1980-90

Persons in           Percent(4)        15.8        29.1         18.3           12.2
poverty, 1990

Net migration        Percent(4)          .1        -7.0         -4.4            6.8
rate, 1980-90

Persons per square    Number(4)        15.4        29.7         36.3          652.3
mile, 1990

Per capita income,   Dollars(4)      13,807      11,056       13,580         16,399
1989

Per capita income    Percent(4)         8.3        11.6         10.4           15.1
growth, 1979-89

Median family        Dollars(4)      27,923      20,731       25,949         35,072
income, 1989

Median family        Percent(4)        -1.0        -2.3         -1.3            4.7
income growth,
1979-89

Total earnings,      Dollars(5)  50,310,088  65,709,312  441,726,020  2,746,177,980
1989

Total earnings       Percent(3)         6.8          .1          3.4           24.4
growth, 1979-89

Total jobs, 1989      Number(6)   2,645,303   3,847,770   23,950,110    111,392,590

Total jobs growth,   Percent(3)        19.4         5.7         10.6           23.8
1979-89

Earnings per job,    Dollars(3)      19,019      17,077       18,444         24,653
1989

Earnings per job     Percent(3)       -10.6        -5.2         -6.5             .5
growth, 1979-89

Unemployment rate,   Percent(4)         7.1         8.5          6.6            5.4
1989


Notes
--------------------
(1)  Additional demographic and economic statistics can be found in P.J. Cook and
     K.L. Mizer, The Revised ERS County Typology: An Overview, RDRR-89, U.S.
     Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Rural Economy Division,
     December 1994.
(2)  Table shows 2,276 nonmetro counties, whereas 2,288 are cited in the report.
     The difference is due to the need to standardize the number of counties for
     comparisons over time.
(3)  Values are calculated from aggregated data.
(4)  Values are unweighted county averages.
(5)  Values are aggregated dollars (in thousands).
(6)  Values are aggregated data

Source:  All measures were calculated by ERS using data from the Bureau of Economic
Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Bureau of the Census.


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