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Oregon 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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Oregon 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 		68,082 3.23 38,797 2.31 29,285 6.86
....Farm proprietors 40,063 1.90 20,891 1.24 19,172 4.49
....Farm wage and salary workers 28,019 1.33 17,906 1.06 10,113 2.37
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		16,346 0.78 11,768 0.70 4,578 1.07
Agricultural input industries-- 4,126 0.20 2,323 0.14 1,803 0.42
....Agricultural chemicals 290 0.01 279 0.02 11 0.00
....Farm machinery and equipment 647 0.03 332 0.02 315 0.07
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 3,061 0.15 1,615 0.10 1,446 0.34
....Commodity contract brokers 128 0.01 97 0.01 31 0.01
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 24,776 1.18 16,228 0.96 8,548 2.00
....Meat products 1,594 0.08 678 0.04 916 0.21
....Dairy products 1,982 0.09 1,223 0.07 759 0.18
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 7,525 0.36 3,382 0.20 4,143 0.97
....Grain mill products 1,019 0.05 533 0.03 486 0.11
....Bakery products 2,925 0.14 2,881 0.17 44 0.01
....Sugar and confectionery products 389 0.02 110 0.01 279 0.07
....Fats and oils products 129 0.01 123 0.01 6 0.00
....Beverages 2,784 0.13 2,544 0.15 240 0.06
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 2,323 0.11 1,610 0.10 713 0.17
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 1,648 0.08 1,459 0.09 189 0.04
....Leather products and footwear 522 0.02 516 0.03 6 0.00
....Packaging 653 0.03 582 0.03 71 0.02
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 669 0.03 339 0.02 330 0.08
....Warehousing 614 0.03 248 0.01 366 0.09
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		232,228 11.01 183,935 10.94 48,293 11.32
Indirect agribusiness 3,951 0.19 2,799 0.17 1,152 0.27
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 349,509 16.58 255,850 15.21 93,659 21.95
All other employment 1,759,050 83.42 1,426,080 84.79 332,970 78.05
Total employment 2,108,559 100.00 1,681,930 100.00 426,629 100.00

*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