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Northern Crescent 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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Northern Crescent 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 		432,111 0.95 231,773 0.57 200,338 4.04
....Farm proprietors 306,750 0.68 152,338 0.38 154,412 3.12
....Farm wage and salary workers 125,361 0.28 79,435 0.20 45,926 0.93
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		140,824 0.31 109,021 0.27 31,803 0.64
Agricultural input industries-- 53,409 0.12 37,057 0.09 16,352 0.33
....Agricultural chemicals 3,560 0.01 3,091 0.01 469 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 7,783 0.02 3,941 0.01 3,842 0.08
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 34,360 0.08 22,458 0.06 11,902 0.24
....Commodity contract brokers 7,706 0.02 7,567 0.02 139 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 538,861 1.19 438,097 1.08 100,764 2.03
....Meat products 60,538 0.13 43,239 0.11 17,299 0.35
....Dairy products 53,748 0.12 38,324 0.09 15,424 0.31
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 41,327 0.09 26,833 0.07 14,494 0.29
....Grain mill products 20,043 0.04 14,989 0.04 5,054 0.10
....Bakery products 71,974 0.16 64,145 0.16 7,829 0.16
....Sugar and confectionery products 26,784 0.06 24,752 0.06 2,032 0.04
....Fats and oils products 1,235 0.00 1,165 0.00 70 0.00
....Beverages 33,175 0.07 29,389 0.07 3,786 0.08
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 31,525 0.07 26,625 0.07 4,900 0.10
....Tobacco products 1,345 0.00 918 0.00 427 0.01
....Apparel and textiles 127,101 0.28 113,681 0.28 13,420 0.27
....Leather products and footwear 19,488 0.04 14,611 0.04 4,877 0.10
....Packaging 32,815 0.07 25,802 0.06 7,013 0.14
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 9,128 0.02 5,633 0.01 3,495 0.07
....Warehousing 8,635 0.02 7,991 0.02 644 0.01
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		4,510,866 9.93 3,993,641 9.87 517,225 10.44
Indirect agribusiness 143,833 0.32 123,778 0.31 20,055 0.40
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 5,819,904 12.81 4,933,367 12.19 886,537 17.89
All other employment 39,616,186 87.19 35,548,504 87.81 4,067,682 82.11
Total employment 45,436,090 100.00 40,481,871 100.00 4,954,219 100.00

*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