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Lake 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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Lake States 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
266,596 2.18 103,112 1.07 163,484 6.25
....Farm proprietors 211,779 1.73 78,434 0.81 133,345 5.09
....Farm wage and salary workers 54,817 0.45 24,678 0.26 30,139 1.15
Closely related:

Agricultural services
41,148 0.34 26,322 0.27 14,823 0.57
Agricultural input industries-- 30,512 0.25 14,060 0.15 16,450 0.63
....Agricultural chemicals 1,123 0.01 873 0.01 250 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 8,104 0.07 2,380 0.02 5,724 0.22
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 20,616 0.17 10,280 0.11 10,334 0.39
....Commodity contract brokers 669 0.01 527 0.01 142 0.01
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 174,088 1.42 104,667 1.09 69,421 2.65
....Meat products 40,156 0.33 19,386 0.20 20,770 0.79
....Dairy products 28,829 0.24 16,569 0.17 12,260 0.47
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 20,243 0.17 11,645 0.12 8,598 0.33
....Grain mill products 11,081 0.09 6,715 0.07 4,366 0.17
....Bakery products 15,915 0.13 13,632 0.14 2,283 0.09
....Sugar and confectionery products 6,484 0.05 5,058 0.05 1,426 0.05
....Fats and oils products 911 0.01 104 0.00 807 0.03
....Beverages 9,010 0.07 6,629 0.07 2,381 0.09
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 8,345 0.07 5,227 0.05 3,118 0.12
....Tobacco products 10 0.00 10 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 7,813 0.06 6,129 0.06 1,684 0.06
....Leather products and footwear 6,114 0.05 3,532 0.04 2,582 0.10
....Packaging 9,224 0.08 5,930 0.06 3,294 0.13
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 8,038 0.07 2,947 0.03 5,091 0.19
....Warehousing 1,915 0.02 1,154 0.01 761 0.03
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
1,252,756 10.22 978,003 10.15 274,753 10.50
Indirect agribusiness 47,907 0.39 37,719 0.39 10,188 0.39
Total farm & farm-related
employment
1,813,007 14.80 1,263,883 13.12 549,119 20.98
All other employment 10,439,078 85.20 8,370,840 86.88 2,068,243 79.02
Total employment 12,252,085 100.00 9,634,723 100.00 2,617,362 100.00

*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