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North Carolina 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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North Carolina 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 		86,723 1.78 40,053 1.12 46,670 3.64
....Farm proprietors 56,779 1.17 26,388 0.74 30,391 2.37
....Farm wage and salary workers 29,944 0.61 13,665 0.38 16,279 1.27
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		19,428 0.40 12,837 0.36 6,591 0.51
Agricultural input industries-- 8,991 0.18 5,397 0.15 3,589 0.28
....Agricultural chemicals 1,333 0.03 301 0.01 1,032 0.08
....Farm machinery and equipment 1,090 0.02 627 0.02 463 0.04
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 6,386 0.13 4,316 0.12 2,065 0.16
....Commodity contract brokers 182 0.00 153 0.00 29 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 176,587 3.63 105,103 2.93 71,484 5.58
....Meat products 31,643 0.65 13,000 0.36 18,643 1.46
....Dairy products 1,179 0.02 968 0.03 211 0.02
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 3,243 0.07 1,971 0.05 1,272 0.10
....Grain mill products 2,362 0.05 1,263 0.04 1,099 0.09
....Bakery products 8,808 0.18 8,671 0.24 137 0.01
....Sugar and confectionery products 337 0.01 18 0.00 319 0.02
....Fats and oils products 367 0.01 326 0.01 41 0.00
....Beverages 2,635 0.05 2,084 0.06 551 0.04
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 2,628 0.05 1,608 0.04 1,020 0.08
....Tobacco products 9,279 0.19 8,466 0.24 813 0.06
....Apparel and textiles 105,148 2.16 61,331 1.71 43,817 3.42
....Leather products and footwear 1,329 0.03 683 0.02 646 0.05
....Packaging 5,021 0.10 3,099 0.09 1,922 0.15
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,625 0.03 1,022 0.03 603 0.05
....Warehousing 983 0.02 593 0.02 390 0.03
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		483,962 9.94 358,625 9.99 125,337 9.78
Indirect agribusiness 25,872 0.53 18,689 0.52 7,183 0.56
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 801,563 16.46 540,704 15.06 260,854 20.36
All other employment 4,068,665 83.54 3,048,532 84.94 1,020,138 79.64
Total employment 4,870,228 100.00 3,589,236 100.00 1,280,992 100.00

*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