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Prairie Gateway 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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Prairie Gateway 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
383,814 3.11 116,436 1.18 267,378 10.99
....Farm proprietors 317,015 2.57 100,509 1.01 216,506 8.90
....Farm wage and salary workers 66,799 0.54 15,927 0.16 50,872 2.09
Closely related:

Agricultural services
49,489 0.40 32,272 0.33 17,217 0.71
Agricultural input industries-- 30,585 0.25 10,340 0.10 20,245 0.83
....Agricultural chemicals 1,686 0.01 648 0.01 1,038 0.04
....Farm machinery and equipment 9,122 0.07 2,335 0.02 6,787 0.28
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 18,716 0.15 6,533 0.07 12,183 0.50
....Commodity contract brokers 1,061 0.01 824 0.01 237 0.01
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 165,878 1.34 87,123 0.88 78,755 3.24
....Meat products 55,197 0.45 15,979 0.16 39,218 1.61
....Dairy products 7,029 0.06 5,955 0.06 1,074 0.04
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 7,911 0.06 4,458 0.04 3,453 0.14
....Grain mill products 11,719 0.09 5,322 0.05 6,397 0.26
....Bakery products 15,904 0.13 12,610 0.13 3,294 0.14
....Sugar and confectionery products 4,071 0.03 1,656 0.02 2,415 0.10
....Fats and oils products 1,162 0.01 981 0.01 181 0.01
....Beverages 9,042 0.07 8,454 0.09 588 0.02
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 8,808 0.07 7,946 0.08 862 0.04
....Tobacco products 121 0.00 121 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 14,751 0.12 9,316 0.09 5,435 0.22
....Leather products and footwear 4,327 0.04 3,361 0.03 966 0.04
....Packaging 5,401 0.04 4,930 0.05 471 0.02
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 16,870 0.14 3,555 0.04 13,315 0.55
....Warehousing 3,565 0.03 2,479 0.03 1,086 0.04
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
1,222,651 9.91 996,282 10.05 226,369 9.31
Indirect agribusiness 25,998 0.21 20,486 0.21 5,512 0.23
Total farm & farm-related
employment
1,878,415 15.22 1,262,939 12.75 615,476 25.31
All other employment 10,461,924 84.78 8,645,406 87.25 1,816,518 74.69
Total employment 12,340,339 100.00 9,908,345 100.00 2,431,994 100.00

*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