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Eastern Uplands 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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Eastern Uplands farm and farm-related employment, 2002
Farm industries
[What is included?]		 Total* Metro Nonmetro
Emp. Pct. of total Emp. Pct. of total Emp. Pct. of total
Farming:

Farm production 		386,456 3.22 155,123 1.78 231,333 7.12
....Farm proprietors 340,334 2.84 133,837 1.53 206,497 6.35
....Farm wage and salary workers 46,122 0.38 21,286 0.24 24,836 0.76
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		40,948 0.34 27,802 0.32 13,146 0.40
Agricultural input industries-- 16,480 0.14 10,329 0.12 6,151 0.19
....Agricultural chemicals 1,863 0.02 1,646 0.02 217 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 1,402 0.01 485 0.01 917 0.03
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 12,750 0.11 7,777 0.09 4,973 0.15
....Commodity contract brokers 465 0.00 421 0.00 44 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 254,487 2.12 146,553 1.68 107,934 3.32
....Meat products 73,957 0.62 36,668 0.42 37,289 1.15
....Dairy products 10,810 0.09 8,260 0.09 2,550 0.08
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 10,626 0.09 7,200 0.08 3,426 0.11
....Grain mill products 8,346 0.07 6,065 0.07 2,281 0.07
....Bakery products 27,430 0.23 21,137 0.24 6,293 0.19
....Sugar and confectionery products 4,944 0.04 3,075 0.04 1,869 0.06
....Fats and oils products 1,164 0.01 908 0.01 256 0.01
....Beverages 12,278 0.10 9,293 0.11 2,985 0.09
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 7,012 0.06 4,931 0.06 2,081 0.06
....Tobacco products 1,144 0.01 1,014 0.01 130 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 71,381 0.60 33,584 0.38 37,797 1.16
....Leather products and footwear 4,630 0.04 2,544 0.03 2,086 0.06
....Packaging 13,580 0.11 7,757 0.09 5,823 0.18
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 4,856 0.04 2,352 0.03 2,504 0.08
....Warehousing 2,329 0.02 1,765 0.02 564 0.02
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		1,254,172 10.46 921,161 10.54 333,011 10.25
Indirect agribusiness 50,480 0.42 35,785 0.41 14,695 0.45
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 2,003,023 16.71 1,296,753 14.84 706,270 21.73
All other employment 9,982,973 83.29 7,439,330 85.16 2,543,643 78.27
Total employment 11,985,996 100.00 8,736,083 100.00 3,249,913 100.00

*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.

For more information, contact: Kathleen Kassel

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Updated date: March 1, 2005