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Kansas 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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Kansas 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 		76,238 4.30 17,342 1.56 58,896 8.88
....Farm proprietors 63,613 3.59 15,634 1.41 47,979 7.23
....Farm wage and salary workers 12,625 0.71 1,708 0.15 10,917 1.65
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		6,804 0.38 3,464 0.31 3,340 0.50
Agricultural input industries-- 10,713 0.60 3,219 0.29 7,494 1.13
....Agricultural chemicals 377 0.02 119 0.01 258 0.04
....Farm machinery and equipment 4,699 0.26 1,705 0.15 2,994 0.45
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 5,212 0.29 1,066 0.10 4,146 0.62
....Commodity contract brokers 425 0.02 329 0.03 96 0.01
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 40,796 2.30 11,202 1.01 29,594 4.46
....Meat products 17,867 1.01 1,739 0.16 16,128 2.43
....Dairy products 314 0.02 201 0.02 113 0.02
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 2,330 0.13 522 0.05 1,808 0.27
....Grain mill products 3,831 0.22 1,687 0.15 2,144 0.32
....Bakery products 3,196 0.18 1,771 0.16 1,425 0.21
....Sugar and confectionery products 1,129 0.06 99 0.01 1,030 0.16
....Fats and oils products 353 0.02 258 0.02 95 0.01
....Beverages 507 0.03 399 0.04 108 0.02
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 1,811 0.10 1,420 0.13 391 0.06
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 900 0.05 532 0.05 368 0.06
....Leather products and footwear 264 0.01 119 0.01 145 0.02
....Packaging 1,168 0.07 987 0.09 181 0.03
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 6,232 0.35 909 0.08 5,323 0.80
....Warehousing 894 0.05 559 0.05 335 0.05
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		166,902 9.41 108,246 9.75 58,629 8.84
Indirect agribusiness 4,891 0.28 2,886 0.26 2,005 0.30
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 306,344 17.27 146,359 13.19 159,958 24.11
All other employment 1,467,057 82.73 963,644 86.81 503,440 75.89
Total employment 1,773,401 100.00 1,110,003 100.00 663,398 100.00

*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