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California 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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California 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 		331,785 1.67 310,681 1.59 21,104 5.18
....Farm proprietors 87,260 0.44 75,761 0.39 11,499 2.82
....Farm wage and salary workers 244,525 1.23 234,920 1.21 9,605 2.36
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		71,302 0.36 66,863 0.34 4,437 1.09
Agricultural input industries-- 20,786 0.10 20,073 0.10 713 0.18
....Agricultural chemicals 2,155 0.01 2,144 0.01 11 0.00
....Farm machinery and equipment 1,581 0.01 1,538 0.01 43 0.01
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 15,143 0.08 14,484 0.07 659 0.16
....Commodity contract brokers 1,907 0.01 1,907 0.01 0 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 325,176 1.63 320,776 1.65 4,400 1.08
....Meat products 22,411 0.11 22,220 0.11 191 0.05
....Dairy products 14,601 0.07 14,233 0.07 368 0.09
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 35,563 0.18 35,044 0.18 519 0.13
....Grain mill products 7,339 0.04 7,001 0.04 338 0.08
....Bakery products 27,884 0.14 27,708 0.14 176 0.04
....Sugar and confectionery products 8,884 0.04 8,801 0.05 83 0.02
....Fats and oils products 1,198 0.01 1,159 0.01 39 0.01
....Beverages 36,273 0.18 34,583 0.18 1,690 0.41
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 28,701 0.14 28,319 0.15 382 0.09
....Tobacco products 2 0.00 2 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 113,367 0.57 113,144 0.58 223 0.05
....Leather products and footwear 4,909 0.02 4,878 0.03 31 0.01
....Packaging 15,795 0.08 15,741 0.08 54 0.01
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 3,603 0.02 3,350 0.02 253 0.06
....Warehousing 4,646 0.02 4,593 0.02 53 0.01
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		1,961,835 9.86 1,916,942 9.84 44,872 11.02
Indirect agribusiness 38,458 0.19 38,376 0.20 82 0.02
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 2,749,342 13.82 2,673,711 13.72 75,608 18.56
All other employment 17,141,410 86.18 16,809,678 86.28 331,755 81.44
Total employment 19,890,752 100.00 19,483,389 100.00 407,363 100.00

*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