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North Dakota 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 Dakota 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 		36,628 8.13 4,413 1.98 32,215 14.15
....Farm proprietors 31,590 7.02 3,561 1.60 28,029 12.31
....Farm wage and salary workers 5,038 1.12 852 0.38 4,186 1.84
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		1,488 0.33 470 0.21 1,018 0.45
Agricultural input industries-- 4,810 1.07 1,917 0.86 2,893 1.27
....Agricultural chemicals 2 0.00 0 0.00 2 0.00
....Farm machinery and equipment 1,909 0.42 1,056 0.47 853 0.37
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 2,866 0.64 848 0.38 2,018 0.89
....Commodity contract brokers 33 0.01 13 0.01 20 0.01
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 8,201 1.82 2,635 1.18 5,566 2.44
....Meat products 686 0.15 423 0.19 263 0.12
....Dairy products 393 0.09 308 0.14 85 0.04
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 496 0.11 268 0.12 228 0.10
....Grain mill products 690 0.15 411 0.18 279 0.12
....Bakery products 610 0.14 262 0.12 348 0.15
....Sugar and confectionery products 993 0.22 48 0.02 945 0.41
....Fats and oils products 219 0.05 63 0.03 156 0.07
....Beverages 192 0.04 2 0.00 190 0.08
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 609 0.14 30 0.01 579 0.25
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 230 0.05 33 0.01 197 0.09
....Leather products and footwear 2 0.00 2 0.00 0 0.00
....Packaging 107 0.02 36 0.02 71 0.03
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 2,795 0.62 671 0.30 2,124 0.93
....Warehousing 179 0.04 78 0.04 101 0.04
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		42,834 9.51 23,564 10.59 19,270 8.46
Indirect agribusiness 324 0.07 313 0.14 11 0.00
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 94,285 20.94 33,312 14.97 60,973 26.77
All other employment 355,994 79.06 189,235 85.03 166,759 73.23
Total employment 450,279 100.00 222,547 100.00 227,732 100.00

*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