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Mountain Farm and Farm-Related Employment, 2002

This product includes data for 1981-2002 and revises estimates for 1998-2001.

Note: These data will no longer be updated or maintained because some of the necessary underlying data are no longer available to ERS.

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Mountain farm and farm-related employment, 2002
Farm industries
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Total* Metro Nonmetro
Emp. Pct. of total Emp. Pct. of total Emp. Pct. of total
Farming:

Farm production
192,718 1.72 69,291 0.76 123,427 5.84
....Farm proprietors 128,391 1.15 41,396 0.46 86,995 4.11
....Farm wage and salary workers 64,327 0.57 27,895 0.31 36,432 1.72
Closely related:

Agricultural services
42,122 0.38 28,195 0.31 13,927 0.66
Agricultural input industries-- 15,714 0.14 8,863 0.10 6,851 0.32
....Agricultural chemicals 2,001 0.02 999 0.01 1,002 0.05
....Farm machinery and equipment 1,825 0.02 915 0.01 910 0.04
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 11,354 0.10 6,525 0.07 4,829 0.23
....Commodity contract brokers 534 0.00 424 0.00 110 0.01
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 93,269 0.83 68,155 0.75 25,114 1.19
....Meat products 14,729 0.13 10,672 0.12 4,057 0.19
....Dairy products 10,203 0.09 7,544 0.08 2,659 0.13
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 14,391 0.13 8,068 0.09 6,323 0.30
....Grain mill products 4,192 0.04 3,163 0.03 1,029 0.05
....Bakery products 9,769 0.09 9,504 0.10 265 0.01
....Sugar and confectionery products 6,146 0.05 2,928 0.03 3,218 0.15
....Fats and oils products 76 0.00 14 0.00 62 0.00
....Beverages 10,738 0.10 9,741 0.11 997 0.05
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 5,616 0.05 4,584 0.05 1,032 0.05
....Tobacco products 42 0.00 40 0.00 2 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 5,418 0.05 4,737 0.05 681 0.03
....Leather products and footwear 1,508 0.01 981 0.01 527 0.02
....Packaging 3,177 0.03 2,968 0.03 209 0.01
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 5,561 0.05 1,914 0.02 3,647 0.17
....Warehousing 1,703 0.02 1,297 0.01 406 0.02
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
1,134,539 10.14 913,803 10.07 220,736 10.44
Indirect agribusiness 15,601 0.14 12,134 0.13 3,467 0.16
Total farm & farm-related
employment
1,493,963 13.35 1,100,441 12.12 393,522 18.61
All other employment 9,697,125 86.65 7,976,068 87.88 1,721,057 81.39
Total employment 11,191,088 100.00 9,076,509 100.00 2,114,579 100.00

*Metro and nonmetro detail may not add to total because of some employment not
classified by location. Metro and nonmetro estimates are based on the June 2003 metropolitan area definitions.

Data are based on the 1997 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

Source: Most industry estimates were developed from an enhanced file of the County Business Patterns, U.S. Bureau of the Census. Farm proprietors and farm wage and salary workers are from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Updated date: March 1, 2005