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Kentucky 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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Kentucky 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 		110,894 4.84 37,344 2.57 73,550 8.78
....Farm proprietors 95,393 4.16 30,444 2.10 64,949 7.75
....Farm wage and salary workers 15,501 0.68 6,900 0.47 8,601 1.03
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		8,210 0.36 5,806 0.40 2,404 0.29
Agricultural input industries-- 3,967 0.17 1,828 0.13 2,139 0.26
....Agricultural chemicals 138 0.01 98 0.01 40 0.00
....Farm machinery and equipment 216 0.01 2 0.00 214 0.03
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 3,544 0.15 1,678 0.12 1,866 0.22
....Commodity contract brokers 69 0.00 50 0.00 19 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 42,226 1.84 21,714 1.49 20,512 2.45
....Meat products 7,552 0.33 3,785 0.26 3,767 0.45
....Dairy products 1,874 0.08 770 0.05 1,104 0.13
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 3,024 0.13 2,214 0.15 810 0.10
....Grain mill products 1,636 0.07 1,378 0.09 258 0.03
....Bakery products 4,730 0.21 2,145 0.15 2,585 0.31
....Sugar and confectionery products 276 0.01 202 0.01 74 0.01
....Fats and oils products 357 0.02 357 0.02 0 0.00
....Beverages 3,556 0.16 2,574 0.18 982 0.12
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 1,948 0.09 1,333 0.09 615 0.07
....Tobacco products 872 0.04 858 0.06 14 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 10,597 0.46 3,571 0.25 7,026 0.84
....Leather products and footwear 626 0.03 6 0.00 620 0.07
....Packaging 2,984 0.13 1,478 0.10 1,506 0.18
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,827 0.08 716 0.05 1,111 0.13
....Warehousing 367 0.02 327 0.02 40 0.00
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		246,156 10.74 158,000 10.87 88,156 10.52
Indirect agribusiness 10,074 0.44 6,217 0.43 3,857 0.46
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 421,527 18.40 230,909 15.89 190,618 22.74
All other employment 1,869,526 81.60 1,222,058 84.11 647,468 77.26
Total employment 2,291,053 100.00 1,452,967 100.00 838,086 100.00

*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