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Alabama 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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Alabama 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 		56,188 2.36 25,174 1.42 31,014 5.10
....Farm proprietors 47,876 2.01 21,198 1.20 26,678 4.38
....Farm wage and salary workers 8,312 0.35 3,976 0.22 4,336 0.71
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		10,729 0.45 7,494 0.42 3,235 0.53
Agricultural input industries-- 5,841 0.25 2,354 0.13 3,487 0.57
....Agricultural chemicals 978 0.04 604 0.03 374 0.06
....Farm machinery and equipment 1,955 0.08 99 0.01 1,856 0.31
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 2,874 0.12 1,620 0.09 1,254 0.21
....Commodity contract brokers 34 0.00 31 0.00 3 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 70,932 2.98 29,830 1.68 41,102 6.75
....Meat products 22,879 0.96 8,847 0.50 14,032 2.31
....Dairy products 2,030 0.09 1,820 0.10 210 0.03
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 507 0.02 330 0.02 177 0.03
....Grain mill products 1,254 0.05 700 0.04 554 0.09
....Bakery products 4,731 0.20 3,685 0.21 1,046 0.17
....Sugar and confectionery products 496 0.02 48 0.00 448 0.07
....Fats and oils products 605 0.03 505 0.03 100 0.02
....Beverages 2,201 0.09 2,197 0.12 4 0.00
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 3,512 0.15 2,921 0.16 591 0.10
....Tobacco products 542 0.02 352 0.02 190 0.03
....Apparel and textiles 28,870 1.21 6,234 0.35 22,636 3.72
....Leather products and footwear 143 0.01 44 0.00 99 0.02
....Packaging 1,505 0.06 1,191 0.07 314 0.05
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,073 0.05 517 0.03 556 0.09
....Warehousing 584 0.02 439 0.02 145 0.02
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		247,789 10.41 185,010 10.44 62,779 10.32
Indirect agribusiness 11,724 0.49 4,992 0.28 6,732 1.11
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 403,203 16.94 254,854 14.38 148,349 24.38
All other employment 1,977,386 83.06 1,517,239 85.62 460,147 75.62
Total employment 2,380,589 100.00 1,772,093 100.00 608,496 100.00

*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