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Fruitful Rim 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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Fruitful Rim 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
634,358 1.56 514,101 1.32 120,257 6.42
....Farm proprietors 242,252 0.60 168,607 0.43 73,645 3.93
....Farm wage and salary workers 392,106 0.96 345,494 0.89 46,612 2.49
Closely related:

Agricultural services
174,348 0.43 154,798 0.40 19,550 1.04
Agricultural input industries-- 50,207 0.12 42,484 0.11 7,723 0.41
....Agricultural chemicals 10,495 0.03 9,198 0.02 1,297 0.07
....Farm machinery and equipment 3,864 0.01 3,046 0.01 818 0.04
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 31,934 0.08 26,412 0.07 5,522 0.29
....Commodity contract brokers 3,914 0.01 3,828 0.01 86 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 514,989 1.27 479,136 1.23 35,853 1.91
....Meat products 42,288 0.10 36,717 0.09 5,571 0.30
....Dairy products 23,708 0.06 21,507 0.06 2,201 0.12
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 71,073 0.17 57,873 0.15 13,200 0.70
....Grain mill products 12,130 0.03 10,508 0.03 1,622 0.09
....Bakery products 48,294 0.12 48,101 0.12 193 0.01
....Sugar and confectionery products 17,033 0.04 15,475 0.04 1,558 0.08
....Fats and oils products 1,648 0.00 1,566 0.00 82 0.00
....Beverages 52,210 0.13 51,658 0.13 552 0.03
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 50,891 0.13 48,051 0.12 2,840 0.15
....Tobacco products 1,515 0.00 1,515 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 141,494 0.35 138,103 0.36 3,391 0.18
....Leather products and footwear 8,069 0.02 7,968 0.02 101 0.01
....Packaging 24,763 0.06 24,312 0.06 451 0.02
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 9,115 0.02 6,451 0.02 2,664 0.14
....Warehousing 10,758 0.03 9,331 0.02 1,427 0.08
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
4,154,486 10.21 3,948,748 10.17 205,738 10.98
Indirect agribusiness 76,296 0.19 71,590 0.18 4,706 0.25
Total farm & farm-related
employment
5,604,684 13.77 5,210,857 13.42 393,827 21.01
All other employment 35,093,436 86.23 33,613,010 86.58 1,480,426 78.99
Total employment 40,698,120 100.00 38,823,867 100.00 1,874,253 100.00

*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