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Alaska 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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Alaska 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
817 0.20 651 0.24 166 0.11
....Farm proprietors 572 0.14 421 0.16 151 0.10
....Farm wage and salary workers 245 0.06 230 0.09 15 0.01
Closely related:

Agricultural services
19,704 4.76 1,878 0.70 17,826 12.08
Agricultural input industries-- 384 0.09 37 0.01 347 0.24
....Agricultural chemicals 346 0.08 3 0.00 343 0.23
....Farm machinery and equipment 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 34 0.01 34 0.01 0 0.00
....Commodity contract brokers 4 0.00 0 0.00 4 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 8,222 1.99 988 0.37 7,024 4.76
....Meat products 89 0.02 17 0.01 72 0.05
....Dairy products 95 0.02 94 0.04 1 0.00
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Grain mill products 78 0.02 78 0.03 0 0.00
....Bakery products 198 0.05 198 0.07 0 0.00
....Sugar and confectionery products 15 0.00 3 0.00 12 0.01
....Fats and oils products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Beverages 60 0.01 43 0.02 17 0.01
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 7,538 1.82 430 0.16 6,898 4.67
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 103 0.02 99 0.04 4 0.00
....Leather products and footwear 28 0.01 11 0.00 17 0.01
....Packaging 13 0.00 13 0.00 0 0.00
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Warehousing 5 0.00 2 0.00 3 0.00
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
38,793 9.37 26,666 10.01 12,127 8.22
Indirect agribusiness 117 0.03 11 0.00 106 0.07
Total farm & farm-related
employment
68,037 16.43 30,231 11.35 37,596 25.48
All other employment 345,958 83.57 236,205 88.65 109,963 74.52
Total employment 413,995 100.00 266,436 100.00 147,559 100.00

*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