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Delta States 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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Delta States 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
154,667 2.88 45,694 1.29 108,973 6.01
....Farm proprietors 122,397 2.28 36,518 1.03 85,879 4.73
....Farm wage and salary workers 32,270 0.60 9,176 0.26 23,094 1.27
Closely related:

Agricultural services
23,701 0.44 13,147 0.37 10,551 0.58
Agricultural input industries-- 15,617 0.29 6,686 0.19 8,929 0.49
....Agricultural chemicals 4,051 0.08 2,571 0.07 1,480 0.08
....Farm machinery and equipment 2,161 0.04 1,003 0.03 1,158 0.06
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 9,203 0.17 2,935 0.08 6,266 0.35
....Commodity contract brokers 202 0.00 177 0.00 25 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 133,648 2.49 53,587 1.51 80,061 4.41
....Meat products 68,023 1.27 23,141 0.65 44,882 2.47
....Dairy products 2,714 0.05 2,095 0.06 619 0.03
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 5,604 0.10 3,376 0.10 2,228 0.12
....Grain mill products 5,558 0.10 2,252 0.06 3,306 0.18
....Bakery products 5,879 0.11 4,410 0.12 1,469 0.08
....Sugar and confectionery products 2,253 0.04 1,069 0.03 1,184 0.07
....Fats and oils products 1,205 0.02 190 0.01 1,015 0.06
....Beverages 3,565 0.07 2,753 0.08 812 0.04
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 10,241 0.19 4,042 0.11 6,199 0.34
....Tobacco products 13 0.00 2 0.00 11 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 14,157 0.26 3,463 0.10 10,694 0.59
....Leather products and footwear 2,643 0.05 1,348 0.04 1,295 0.07
....Packaging 4,562 0.08 2,269 0.06 2,293 0.13
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 4,511 0.08 2,038 0.06 2,473 0.14
....Warehousing 2,720 0.05 1,139 0.03 1,581 0.09
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
555,433 10.35 379,838 10.69 175,595 9.68
Indirect agribusiness 24,888 0.46 13,383 0.38 11,505 0.63
Total farm & farm-related
employment
907,954 16.92 512,335 14.42 395,614 21.80
All other employment 4,459,732 83.08 3,040,749 85.58 1,418,988 78.20
Total employment 5,367,686 100.00 3,553,084 100.00 1,814,602 100.00

*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