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Southeast 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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Southeast 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 		250,674 1.34 141,358 0.86 109,316 4.76
....Farm proprietors 162,986 0.87 81,399 0.50 81,587 3.55
....Farm wage and salary workers 87,688 0.47 59,959 0.37 27,729 1.21
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		74,258 0.40 59,939 0.37 14,319 0.62
Agricultural input industries-- 27,850 0.15 17,971 0.11 9,877 0.43
....Agricultural chemicals 7,636 0.04 5,875 0.04 1,761 0.08
....Farm machinery and equipment 3,912 0.02 1,267 0.01 2,645 0.12
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 14,914 0.08 9,462 0.06 5,450 0.24
....Commodity contract brokers 1,388 0.01 1,367 0.01 21 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 319,319 1.71 202,863 1.24 116,456 5.07
....Meat products 74,614 0.40 41,193 0.25 33,421 1.46
....Dairy products 5,565 0.03 5,261 0.03 304 0.01
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 12,236 0.07 9,123 0.06 3,113 0.14
....Grain mill products 6,226 0.03 4,540 0.03 1,686 0.07
....Bakery products 25,033 0.13 22,821 0.14 2,212 0.10
....Sugar and confectionery products 6,409 0.03 5,492 0.03 917 0.04
....Fats and oils products 1,531 0.01 1,261 0.01 270 0.01
....Beverages 14,141 0.08 13,465 0.08 676 0.03
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 13,611 0.07 11,254 0.07 2,357 0.10
....Tobacco products 4,735 0.03 4,545 0.03 190 0.01
....Apparel and textiles 130,618 0.70 65,491 0.40 65,127 2.84
....Leather products and footwear 3,244 0.02 2,928 0.02 316 0.01
....Packaging 11,933 0.06 8,844 0.05 3,089 0.13
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 3,781 0.02 1,870 0.01 1,911 0.08
....Warehousing 5,642 0.03 4,775 0.03 867 0.04
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		1,998,378 10.69 1,759,331 10.73 239,047 10.41
Indirect agribusiness 69,497 0.37 54,204 0.33 15,293 0.67
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 2,739,976 14.65 2,235,666 13.63 504,308 21.97
All other employment 15,956,986 85.35 14,166,066 86.37 1,790,922 78.03
Total employment 18,696,962 100.00 16,401,732 100.00 2,295,230 100.00

*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