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Arkansas 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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Arkansas 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 		62,638 4.18 20,860 2.24 41,778 7.36
....Farm proprietors 49,174 3.28 16,174 1.73 33,000 5.81
....Farm wage and salary workers 13,464 0.90 4,686 0.50 8,778 1.55
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		8,055 0.54 2,961 0.32 5,091 0.90
Agricultural input industries-- 5,339 0.36 1,706 0.18 3,633 0.64
....Agricultural chemicals 653 0.04 55 0.01 598 0.11
....Farm machinery and equipment 590 0.04 171 0.02 419 0.07
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 4,070 0.27 1,460 0.16 2,610 0.46
....Commodity contract brokers 26 0.00 20 0.00 6 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 67,707 4.51 30,720 3.29 36,987 6.52
....Meat products 41,561 2.77 17,374 1.86 24,187 4.26
....Dairy products 803 0.05 508 0.05 295 0.05
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 4,267 0.28 2,810 0.30 1,457 0.26
....Grain mill products 3,388 0.23 1,689 0.18 1,699 0.30
....Bakery products 2,727 0.18 1,801 0.19 926 0.16
....Sugar and confectionery products 34 0.00 18 0.00 16 0.00
....Fats and oils products 653 0.04 116 0.01 537 0.09
....Beverages 868 0.06 677 0.07 191 0.03
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 3,049 0.20 1,131 0.12 1,918 0.34
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 3,387 0.23 850 0.09 2,537 0.45
....Leather products and footwear 2,306 0.15 1,103 0.12 1,203 0.21
....Packaging 1,969 0.13 1,427 0.15 542 0.10
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,358 0.09 552 0.06 806 0.14
....Warehousing 1,337 0.09 664 0.07 673 0.12
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		148,522 9.90 94,722 10.16 53,800 9.48
Indirect agribusiness 10,562 0.70 7,384 0.79 3,178 0.56
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 302,823 20.19 158,353 16.98 144,467 25.46
All other employment 1,197,152 79.81 774,092 83.02 423,063 74.54
Total employment 1,499,975 100.00 932,445 100.00 567,530 100.00

*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