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Mississippi 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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Mississippi 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 		53,847 3.67 10,899 1.58 42,948 5.52
....Farm proprietors 44,265 3.02 9,396 1.37 34,869 4.48
....Farm wage and salary workers 9,582 0.65 1,503 0.22 8,079 1.04
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		5,391 0.37 2,188 0.32 3,203 0.41
Agricultural input industries-- 4,127 0.28 931 0.14 3,194 0.41
....Agricultural chemicals 972 0.07 441 0.06 531 0.07
....Farm machinery and equipment 594 0.04 2 0.00 592 0.08
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 2,541 0.17 478 0.07 2,061 0.26
....Commodity contract brokers 20 0.00 10 0.00 10 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 41,352 2.82 7,513 1.09 33,839 4.35
....Meat products 22,079 1.51 3,789 0.55 18,290 2.35
....Dairy products 668 0.05 420 0.06 248 0.03
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 165 0.01 40 0.01 125 0.02
....Grain mill products 1,212 0.08 336 0.05 876 0.11
....Bakery products 864 0.06 418 0.06 446 0.06
....Sugar and confectionery products 29 0.00 17 0.00 12 0.00
....Fats and oils products 302 0.02 0 0.00 302 0.04
....Beverages 477 0.03 88 0.01 389 0.05
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 4,094 0.28 602 0.09 3,492 0.45
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 7,844 0.53 980 0.14 6,864 0.88
....Leather products and footwear 135 0.01 55 0.01 80 0.01
....Packaging 1,590 0.11 411 0.06 1,179 0.15
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,161 0.08 275 0.04 886 0.11
....Warehousing 732 0.05 82 0.01 650 0.08
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		145,941 9.95 70,440 10.24 75,501 9.70
Indirect agribusiness 5,802 0.40 1,503 0.22 4,299 0.55
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 256,460 17.49 93,474 13.58 162,984 20.94
All other employment 1,210,003 82.51 594,600 86.42 615,405 79.06
Total employment 1,466,463 100.00 688,074 100.00 778,389 100.00

*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