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Delaware 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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Delaware 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
4,253 0.85 2,092 0.50 2,161 2.52
....Farm proprietors 2,299 0.46 1,030 0.25 1,269 1.48
....Farm wage and salary workers 1,954 0.39 1,062 0.25 892 1.04
Closely related:

Agricultural services
1,520 0.30 1,143 0.27 377 0.44
Agricultural input industries-- 720 0.14 289 0.07 431 0.50
....Agricultural chemicals 170 0.03 20 0.00 150 0.18
....Farm machinery and equipment 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 514 0.10 236 0.06 278 0.32
....Commodity contract brokers 36 0.01 33 0.01 3 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 9,800 1.95 3,526 0.84 6,274 7.33
....Meat products 6,476 1.29 1,180 0.28 5,296 6.19
....Dairy products 155 0.03 124 0.03 31 0.04
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 426 0.08 173 0.04 253 0.30
....Grain mill products 180 0.04 4 0.00 176 0.21
....Bakery products 133 0.03 133 0.03 0 0.00
....Sugar and confectionery products 91 0.02 61 0.01 30 0.04
....Fats and oils products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Beverages 174 0.03 161 0.04 13 0.02
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 1,037 0.21 689 0.16 348 0.41
....Tobacco products 2 0.00 2 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 748 0.15 674 0.16 74 0.09
....Leather products and footwear 42 0.01 40 0.01 2 0.00
....Packaging 63 0.01 58 0.01 5 0.01
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 60 0.01 20 0.00 40 0.05
....Warehousing 213 0.04 207 0.05 6 0.01
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
48,354 9.61 37,176 8.90 11,178 13.06
Indirect agribusiness 1,859 0.37 1,841 0.44 18 0.02
Total farm & farm-related
employment
66,506 13.22 46,067 11.03 20,439 23.87
All other employment 436,723 86.78 371,543 88.97 65,180 76.13
Total employment 503,229 100.00 417,610 100.00 85,619 100.00

*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