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Georgia 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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Georgia 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 		67,916 1.39 24,731 0.61 43,185 5.37
....Farm proprietors 50,187 1.03 19,541 0.48 30,646 3.81
....Farm wage and salary workers 17,729 0.36 5,190 0.13 12,539 1.56
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		18,762 0.38 13,846 0.34 4,916 0.61
Agricultural input industries-- 8,736 0.18 4,469 0.11 4,267 0.53
....Agricultural chemicals 1,527 0.03 847 0.02 680 0.08
....Farm machinery and equipment 1,456 0.03 817 0.02 639 0.08
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 5,560 0.11 2,615 0.06 2,945 0.37
....Commodity contract brokers 193 0.00 190 0.00 3 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 122,637 2.52 78,526 1.93 44,111 5.49
....Meat products 36,032 0.74 22,787 0.56 13,245 1.65
....Dairy products 726 0.01 717 0.02 9 0.00
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 1,571 0.03 1,078 0.03 493 0.06
....Grain mill products 3,502 0.07 2,584 0.06 918 0.11
....Bakery products 9,645 0.20 9,147 0.22 498 0.06
....Sugar and confectionery products 2,399 0.05 2,338 0.06 61 0.01
....Fats and oils products 765 0.02 661 0.02 104 0.01
....Beverages 4,421 0.09 3,924 0.10 497 0.06
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 4,875 0.10 3,780 0.09 1,095 0.14
....Tobacco products 2,617 0.05 2,617 0.06 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 45,570 0.93 21,869 0.54 23,701 2.95
....Leather products and footwear 274 0.01 144 0.00 130 0.02
....Packaging 5,413 0.11 3,477 0.09 1,936 0.24
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,226 0.03 401 0.01 825 0.10
....Warehousing 3,601 0.07 3,002 0.07 599 0.07
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		513,925 10.54 436,226 10.72 77,699 9.67
Indirect agribusiness 27,441 0.56 22,499 0.55 4,942 0.62
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 759,417 15.58 580,297 14.26 179,120 22.29
All other employment 4,114,671 84.42 3,490,261 85.74 624,410 77.71
Total employment 4,874,088 100.00 4,070,558 100.00 803,530 100.00

*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