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Illinois 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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Illinois 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 		94,461 1.29 35,296 0.55 59,165 6.72
....Farm proprietors 78,410 1.07 27,805 0.43 50,605 5.75
....Farm wage and salary workers 16,051 0.22 7,491 0.12 8,560 0.97
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		19,963 0.27 15,227 0.24 4,736 0.54
Agricultural input industries-- 28,918 0.40 21,935 0.34 6,983 0.79
....Agricultural chemicals 1,091 0.01 745 0.01 346 0.04
....Farm machinery and equipment 7,116 0.10 4,883 0.08 2,233 0.25
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 10,688 0.15 6,324 0.10 4,364 0.50
....Commodity contract brokers 10,023 0.14 9,983 0.16 40 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 107,662 1.47 86,839 1.35 20,823 2.36
....Meat products 17,383 0.24 12,831 0.20 4,552 0.52
....Dairy products 4,449 0.06 3,393 0.05 1,056 0.12
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 7,873 0.11 7,609 0.12 264 0.03
....Grain mill products 6,354 0.09 3,927 0.06 2,427 0.28
....Bakery products 15,106 0.21 13,990 0.22 1,116 0.13
....Sugar and confectionery products 11,663 0.16 10,951 0.17 712 0.08
....Fats and oils products 4,171 0.06 3,523 0.05 648 0.07
....Beverages 5,958 0.08 5,218 0.08 740 0.08
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 7,564 0.10 6,018 0.09 1,546 0.18
....Tobacco products 329 0.00 329 0.01 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 7,447 0.10 6,170 0.10 1,277 0.15
....Leather products and footwear 1,890 0.03 1,839 0.03 51 0.01
....Packaging 8,820 0.12 6,884 0.11 1,936 0.22
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 6,759 0.09 2,808 0.04 3,951 0.45
....Warehousing 1,896 0.03 1,349 0.02 547 0.06
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		672,486 9.19 587,537 9.13 84,949 9.65
Indirect agribusiness 27,268 0.37 23,690 0.37 3,578 0.41
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 950,758 12.99 770,524 11.97 180,234 20.47
All other employment 6,365,770 87.01 5,665,465 88.03 700,305 79.53
Total employment 7,316,528 100.00 6,435,989 100.00 880,539 100.00

*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