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Southern Seaboard 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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Southern Seaboard 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
328,295 1.65 137,905 0.87 190,390 4.86
....Farm proprietors 247,845 1.25 103,616 0.65 144,229 3.68
....Farm wage and salary workers 80,450 0.41 34,289 0.22 46,161 1.18
Closely related:

Agricultural services
76,836 0.39 54,652 0.34 22,184 0.57
Agricultural input industries-- 30,967 0.16 16,828 0.11 14,139 0.36
....Agricultural chemicals 5,044 0.03 2,549 0.02 2,495 0.06
....Farm machinery and equipment 4,925 0.02 1,669 0.01 3,256 0.08
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 20,130 0.10 11,774 0.07 8,356 0.21
....Commodity contract brokers 868 0.00 836 0.01 32 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 473,025 2.38 270,330 1.70 202,695 5.17
....Meat products 131,820 0.66 60,898 0.38 70,922 1.81
....Dairy products 6,862 0.03 5,802 0.04 1,060 0.03
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 9,308 0.05 4,617 0.03 4,691 0.12
....Grain mill products 9,207 0.05 5,247 0.03 3,960 0.10
....Bakery products 26,611 0.13 24,596 0.15 2,015 0.05
....Sugar and confectionery products 2,854 0.01 1,685 0.01 1,169 0.03
....Fats and oils products 1,492 0.01 1,250 0.01 242 0.01
....Beverages 11,361 0.06 9,630 0.06 1,731 0.04
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 16,471 0.08 10,993 0.07 5,478 0.14
....Tobacco products 18,588 0.09 17,517 0.11 1,071 0.03
....Apparel and textiles 205,355 1.04 106,762 0.67 98,593 2.52
....Leather products and footwear 2,289 0.01 1,421 0.01 868 0.02
....Packaging 17,608 0.09 11,267 0.07 6,341 0.16
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 6,391 0.03 3,360 0.02 3,031 0.08
....Warehousing 6,808 0.03 5,285 0.03 1,523 0.04
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
1,985,509 10.01 1,589,405 9.98 396,104 10.11
Indirect agribusiness 89,042 0.45 63,992 0.40 25,050 0.64
Total farm & farm-related
employment
2,983,674 15.04 2,133,112 13.40 850,562 21.71
All other employment 16,857,264 84.96 13,789,996 86.60 3,067,268 78.29
Total employment 19,840,938 100.00 15,923,108 100.00 3,917,830 100.00

*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