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Pacific 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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Pacific 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 		482,581 1.89 402,969 1.66 79,612 6.59
....Farm proprietors 164,899 0.65 118,737 0.49 46,162 3.82
....Farm wage and salary workers 317,682 1.24 284,232 1.17 33,450 2.77
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		110,166 0.43 96,505 0.40 13,659 1.13
Agricultural input industries-- 29,995 0.12 25,855 0.11 4,140 0.34
....Agricultural chemicals 2,969 0.01 2,900 0.01 69 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 2,659 0.01 2,279 0.01 380 0.03
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 22,255 0.09 18,601 0.08 3,654 0.30
....Commodity contract brokers 2,112 0.01 2,075 0.01 37 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 394,397 1.54 373,825 1.54 20,572 1.70
....Meat products 27,203 0.11 25,984 0.11 1,219 0.10
....Dairy products 17,933 0.07 16,664 0.07 1,269 0.10
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 52,925 0.21 44,321 0.18 8,604 0.71
....Grain mill products 9,793 0.04 8,803 0.04 990 0.08
....Bakery products 35,904 0.14 35,638 0.15 266 0.02
....Sugar and confectionery products 10,092 0.04 9,676 0.04 416 0.03
....Fats and oils products 1,442 0.01 1,373 0.01 69 0.01
....Beverages 42,878 0.17 40,745 0.17 2,133 0.18
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 39,931 0.16 37,779 0.16 2,152 0.18
....Tobacco products 2 0.00 2 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 117,751 0.46 117,214 0.48 537 0.04
....Leather products and footwear 5,741 0.02 5,699 0.02 42 0.00
....Packaging 18,870 0.07 18,641 0.08 229 0.02
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 5,835 0.02 4,470 0.02 1,365 0.11
....Warehousing 8,097 0.03 6,816 0.03 1,281 0.11
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		2,553,534 9.99 2,424,410 9.96 129,103 10.68
Indirect agribusiness 51,543 0.20 49,728 0.20 1,815 0.15
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 3,622,216 14.17 3,373,292 13.86 248,901 20.59
All other employment 21,933,075 85.83 20,973,101 86.14 959,997 79.41
Total employment 25,555,291 100.00 24,346,393 100.00 1,208,898 100.00

*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