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Louisiana 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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Louisiana 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 		38,182 1.59 13,935 0.72 24,247 5.17
....Farm proprietors 28,958 1.21 10,948 0.57 18,010 3.84
....Farm wage and salary workers 9,224 0.38 2,987 0.15 6,237 1.33
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		10,255 0.43 7,998 0.41 2,257 0.48
Agricultural input industries-- 6,151 0.26 4,049 0.21 2,102 0.45
....Agricultural chemicals 2,426 0.10 2,075 0.11 351 0.07
....Farm machinery and equipment 977 0.04 830 0.04 147 0.03
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 2,592 0.11 997 0.05 1,595 0.34
....Commodity contract brokers 156 0.01 147 0.01 9 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 24,589 1.02 15,354 0.79 9,235 1.97
....Meat products 4,383 0.18 1,978 0.10 2,405 0.51
....Dairy products 1,243 0.05 1,167 0.06 76 0.02
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 1,172 0.05 526 0.03 646 0.14
....Grain mill products 958 0.04 227 0.01 731 0.16
....Bakery products 2,288 0.10 2,191 0.11 97 0.02
....Sugar and confectionery products 2,190 0.09 1,034 0.05 1,156 0.25
....Fats and oils products 250 0.01 74 0.00 176 0.04
....Beverages 2,220 0.09 1,988 0.10 232 0.05
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 3,098 0.13 2,309 0.12 789 0.17
....Tobacco products 13 0.00 2 0.00 11 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 2,926 0.12 1,633 0.08 1,293 0.28
....Leather products and footwear 202 0.01 190 0.01 12 0.00
....Packaging 1,003 0.04 431 0.02 572 0.12
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,992 0.08 1,211 0.06 781 0.17
....Warehousing 651 0.03 393 0.02 258 0.06
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		260,970 10.87 214,676 11.11 46,294 9.88
Indirect agribusiness 8,524 0.35 4,496 0.23 4,028 0.86
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 348,671 14.52 260,508 13.48 88,163 18.81
All other employment 2,052,577 85.48 1,672,057 86.52 380,520 81.19
Total employment 2,401,248 100.00 1,932,565 100.00 468,683 100.00

*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