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Colorado 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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Colorado 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
43,029 1.48 17,458 0.70 25,571 6.08
....Farm proprietors 29,955 1.03 11,423 0.46 18,532 4.41
....Farm wage and salary workers 13,074 0.45 6,035 0.24 7,039 1.67
Closely related:

Agricultural services
11,187 0.38 8,525 0.34 2,662 0.63
Agricultural input industries-- 3,649 0.13 2,317 0.09 1,332 0.32
....Agricultural chemicals 126 0.00 101 0.00 25 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 706 0.02 381 0.02 325 0.08
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 2,657 0.09 1,695 0.07 962 0.23
....Commodity contract brokers 160 0.01 140 0.01 20 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 27,778 0.95 21,609 0.87 6,169 1.47
....Meat products 6,686 0.23 4,250 0.17 2,436 0.58
....Dairy products 1,984 0.07 1,435 0.06 549 0.13
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 316 0.01 264 0.01 52 0.01
....Grain mill products 1,183 0.04 986 0.04 197 0.05
....Bakery products 2,738 0.09 2,648 0.11 90 0.02
....Sugar and confectionery products 1,915 0.07 620 0.02 1,295 0.31
....Fats and oils products 10 0.00 7 0.00 3 0.00
....Beverages 6,798 0.23 6,712 0.27 86 0.02
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 1,104 0.04 1,067 0.04 37 0.01
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 1,236 0.04 1,166 0.05 70 0.02
....Leather products and footwear 548 0.02 356 0.01 192 0.05
....Packaging 1,110 0.04 1,095 0.04 15 0.00
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,679 0.06 543 0.02 1,136 0.27
....Warehousing 471 0.02 460 0.02 11 0.00
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
295,936 10.15 245,807 9.85 50,129 11.92
Indirect agribusiness 3,794 0.13 3,494 0.14 300 0.07
Total farm & farm-related
employment
385,373 13.22 299,210 11.99 86,163 20.49
All other employment 2,529,966 86.78 2,195,687 88.01 334,279 79.51
Total employment 2,915,339 100.00 2,494,897 100.00 420,442 100.00

*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