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Northeast 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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Northeast 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
232,605 0.66 143,134 0.44 89,471 2.95
....Farm proprietors 148,526 0.42 84,787 0.26 63,739 2.10
....Farm wage and salary workers 84,079 0.24 58,347 0.18 25,732 0.85
Closely related:

Agricultural services
105,211 0.30 84,357 0.26 20,854 0.69
Agricultural input industries-- 30,446 0.09 24,377 0.08 6,069 0.20
....Agricultural chemicals 2,559 0.01 2,227 0.01 332 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 2,071 0.01 1,556 0.00 515 0.02
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 18,304 0.05 13,166 0.04 5,138 0.17
....Commodity contract brokers 7,512 0.02 7,428 0.02 84 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 400,935 1.13 338,733 1.04 62,202 2.05
....Meat products 37,666 0.11 25,492 0.08 12,174 0.40
....Dairy products 27,956 0.08 22,163 0.07 5,793 0.19
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 21,044 0.06 14,712 0.05 6,332 0.21
....Grain mill products 11,742 0.03 8,766 0.03 2,976 0.10
....Bakery products 54,725 0.15 49,235 0.15 5,490 0.18
....Sugar and confectionery products 22,178 0.06 21,286 0.07 892 0.03
....Fats and oils products 1,038 0.00 999 0.00 39 0.00
....Beverages 26,190 0.07 24,424 0.08 1,766 0.06
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 26,231 0.07 22,394 0.07 3,837 0.13
....Tobacco products 1,389 0.00 925 0.00 464 0.02
....Apparel and textiles 121,659 0.34 108,483 0.33 13,176 0.43
....Leather products and footwear 14,627 0.04 10,816 0.03 3,811 0.13
....Packaging 23,436 0.07 19,154 0.06 4,282 0.14
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 4,115 0.01 3,186 0.01 929 0.03
....Warehousing 6,939 0.02 6,698 0.02 241 0.01
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
3,470,833 9.77 3,153,857 9.71 316,976 10.46
Indirect agribusiness 93,001 0.26 83,867 0.26 9,134 0.30
Total farm & farm-related
employment
4,333,031 12.20 3,828,325 11.79 504,706 16.65
All other employment 31,178,527 87.80 28,652,821 88.21 2,525,706 83.35
Total employment 35,511,558 100.00 32,481,146 100.00 3,030,412 100.00

*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