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Michigan 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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Michigan 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
70,930 1.29 37,280 0.81 33,650 3.73
....Farm proprietors 52,748 0.96 26,064 0.57 26,684 2.95
....Farm wage and salary workers 18,182 0.33 11,216 0.24 6,966 0.77
Closely related:

Agricultural services
16,191 0.30 11,595 0.25 4,593 0.51
Agricultural input industries-- 5,578 0.10 3,747 0.08 1,831 0.20
....Agricultural chemicals 359 0.01 265 0.01 94 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 578 0.01 440 0.01 138 0.02
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 4,432 0.08 2,839 0.06 1,593 0.18
....Commodity contract brokers 209 0.00 203 0.00 6 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 41,112 0.75 30,350 0.66 10,762 1.19
....Meat products 5,460 0.10 3,783 0.08 1,677 0.19
....Dairy products 5,123 0.09 3,066 0.07 2,057 0.23
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 5,111 0.09 3,431 0.07 1,680 0.19
....Grain mill products 3,078 0.06 2,673 0.06 405 0.04
....Bakery products 5,549 0.10 4,692 0.10 857 0.09
....Sugar and confectionery products 2,045 0.04 1,347 0.03 698 0.08
....Fats and oils products 19 0.00 19 0.00 0 0.00
....Beverages 3,796 0.07 2,669 0.06 1,127 0.12
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 1,835 0.03 1,500 0.03 335 0.04
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 2,737 0.05 2,569 0.06 168 0.02
....Leather products and footwear 1,923 0.04 1,412 0.03 511 0.06
....Packaging 2,372 0.04 1,842 0.04 530 0.06
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,465 0.03 826 0.02 639 0.07
....Warehousing 599 0.01 521 0.01 78 0.01
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
585,954 10.68 486,576 10.62 99,378 11.00
Indirect agribusiness 12,407 0.23 9,819 0.21 2,588 0.29
Total farm & farm-related
employment
732,172 13.34 579,367 12.64 152,802 16.92
All other employment 4,754,707 86.66 4,004,301 87.36 750,409 83.08
Total employment 5,486,879 100.00 4,583,668 100.00 903,211 100.00

*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