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Northern Great Plains 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 Great Plains 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 		116,136 6.09 19,658 1.69 96,478 12.91
....Farm proprietors 93,559 4.91 13,588 1.17 79,971 10.70
....Farm wage and salary workers 22,577 1.18 6,070 0.52 16,507 2.21
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		8,830 0.46 4,670 0.40 4,160 0.56
Agricultural input industries-- 10,482 0.55 3,649 0.31 6,833 0.91
....Agricultural chemicals 186 0.01 106 0.01 80 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 2,847 0.15 1,373 0.12 1,474 0.20
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 7,288 0.38 2,076 0.18 5,212 0.70
....Commodity contract brokers 161 0.01 94 0.01 67 0.01
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 32,666 1.71 16,730 1.44 15,936 2.13
....Meat products 7,308 0.38 4,263 0.37 3,045 0.41
....Dairy products 1,815 0.10 679 0.06 1,136 0.15
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 677 0.04 360 0.03 317 0.04
....Grain mill products 1,538 0.08 684 0.06 854 0.11
....Bakery products 1,180 0.06 369 0.03 811 0.11
....Sugar and confectionery products 3,287 0.17 1,615 0.14 1,672 0.22
....Fats and oils products 284 0.01 63 0.01 221 0.03
....Beverages 5,834 0.31 5,503 0.47 331 0.04
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 1,066 0.06 318 0.03 748 0.10
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 749 0.04 348 0.03 401 0.05
....Leather products and footwear 353 0.02 295 0.03 58 0.01
....Packaging 829 0.04 721 0.06 108 0.01
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 7,315 0.38 1,360 0.12 5,955 0.80
....Warehousing 431 0.02 152 0.01 279 0.04
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		186,638 9.79 119,381 10.29 67,257 9.00
Indirect agribusiness 1,868 0.10 1,041 0.09 827 0.11
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 356,620 18.70 165,129 14.23 191,491 25.63
All other employment 1,550,654 81.30 995,048 85.77 555,606 74.37
Total employment 1,907,274 100.00 1,160,177 100.00 747,097 100.00

*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