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

Farm production
82,714 2.33 53,491 1.68 29,223 7.79
....Farm proprietors 37,576 1.06 22,085 0.69 15,491 4.13
....Farm Wage & Salary Workers 45,138 1.27 31,406 0.99 13,732 3.66
Closely related:

Agricultural services
22,518 0.63 17,874 0.56 4,644 1.24
Agricultural inputs industries-- 5,083 0.14 3,459 0.11 1,624 0.43
....Agricultural chemicals 524 0.01 477 0.01 47 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 431 0.01 409 0.01 22 0.01
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 4,051 0.11 2,502 0.08 1,549 0.41
....Commodity contract brokers 77 0.00 71 0.00 6 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 44,445 1.25 36,821 1.16 7,624 2.03
....Meat products 3,198 0.09 3,086 0.10 112 0.03
....Dairy products 1,350 0.04 1,208 0.04 142 0.04
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 9,837 0.28 5,895 0.19 3,942 1.05
....Grain mill products 1,435 0.04 1,269 0.04 166 0.04
....Bakery products 5,095 0.14 5,049 0.16 46 0.01
....Sugar and confectionery products 819 0.02 765 0.02 54 0.01
....Fats and oils products 115 0.00 91 0.00 24 0.01
....Beverages 3,821 0.11 3,618 0.11 203 0.05
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 8,907 0.25 7,850 0.25 1,057 0.28
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 2,736 0.08 2,611 0.08 125 0.03
....Leather products and footwear 310 0.01 305 0.01 5 0.00
....Packaging 2,422 0.07 2,318 0.07 104 0.03
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,563 0.04 781 0.02 782 0.21
....Warehousing 2,837 0.08 1,975 0.06 862 0.23
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
359,471 10.11 323,533 10.17 35,938 9.59
Indirect agribusiness 9,134 0.26 8,553 0.27 581 0.15
Total farm & farm-related employment 523,365 14.72 443,731 13.95 79,634 21.24
All other employment 3,032,615 85.28 2,737,343 86.05 295,272 78.76
Total employment 3,555,980 100.00 3,181,074 100.00 374,906 100.00

*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