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New Mexico 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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New Mexico farm and farm-related employment, 2002
Farm industries
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Total* Metro Nonmetro
Emp. Pct. of total Emp. Pct. of total Emp. Pct. of total
Farming:

Farm production
21,272 2.14 6,365 0.95 14,907 4.67
....Farm proprietors 14,677 1.48 4,326 0.64 10,351 3.24
....Farm wage and salary workers 6,595 0.66 2,039 0.30 4,556 1.43
Closely related:

Agricultural services
3,132 0.32 1,816 0.27 1,316 0.41
Agricultural input industries-- 856 0.09 334 0.05 522 0.16
....Agricultural chemicals 16 0.00 16 0.00 0 0.00
....Farm machinery and equipment 22 0.00 8 0.00 14 0.00
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 783 0.08 284 0.04 499 0.16
....Commodity contract brokers 35 0.00 26 0.00 9 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 6,062 0.61 3,582 0.53 2,480 0.78
....Meat products 675 0.07 529 0.08 146 0.05
....Dairy products 853 0.09 289 0.04 564 0.18
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 1,374 0.14 941 0.14 433 0.14
....Grain mill products 330 0.03 198 0.03 132 0.04
....Bakery products 328 0.03 284 0.04 44 0.01
....Sugar and confectionery products 494 0.05 33 0.00 461 0.14
....Fats and oils products 17 0.00 0 0.00 17 0.01
....Beverages 297 0.03 171 0.03 126 0.04
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 782 0.08 645 0.10 137 0.04
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 302 0.03 215 0.03 87 0.03
....Leather products and footwear 173 0.02 100 0.01 73 0.02
....Packaging 21 0.00 17 0.00 4 0.00
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 380 0.04 132 0.02 248 0.08
....Warehousing 36 0.00 28 0.00 8 0.00
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
98,435 9.92 66,271 9.84 32,164 10.08
Indirect agribusiness 1,799 0.18 554 0.08 1,245 0.39
Total farm & farm-related
employment
131,556 13.25 78,922 11.72 52,634 16.50
All other employment 861,055 86.75 594,603 88.28 266,452 83.50
Total employment 992,611 100.00 673,525 100.00 319,086 100.00

*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.

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Updated date: March 1, 2005