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New York 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 York 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 		59,514 0.57 30,763 0.32 28,751 3.77
....Farm proprietors 37,827 0.36 17,699 0.18 20,128 2.64
....Farm wage and salary workers 21,687 0.21 13,064 0.13 8,623 1.13
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		29,196 0.28 25,741 0.27 3,455 0.45
Agricultural input industries-- 10,560 0.10 8,274 0.09 2,286 0.30
....Agricultural chemicals 388 0.00 376 0.00 12 0.00
....Farm machinery and equipment 441 0.00 56 0.00 385 0.05
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 4,207 0.04 2,368 0.02 1,839 0.24
....Commodity contract brokers 5,524 0.05 5,474 0.06 50 0.01
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 110,538 1.06 97,455 1.00 13,083 1.72
....Meat products 3,393 0.03 2,946 0.03 447 0.06
....Dairy products 7,876 0.08 4,169 0.04 3,707 0.49
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 7,084 0.07 5,208 0.05 1,876 0.25
....Grain mill products 3,092 0.03 2,101 0.02 991 0.13
....Bakery products 13,469 0.13 12,695 0.13 774 0.10
....Sugar and confectionery products 3,801 0.04 3,496 0.04 305 0.04
....Fats and oils products 125 0.00 111 0.00 14 0.00
....Beverages 7,423 0.07 6,566 0.07 857 0.11
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 5,500 0.05 5,087 0.05 413 0.05
....Tobacco products 72 0.00 72 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 49,465 0.47 47,795 0.49 1,670 0.22
....Leather products and footwear 2,896 0.03 1,941 0.02 955 0.13
....Packaging 3,504 0.03 2,668 0.03 836 0.11
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,437 0.01 1,205 0.01 232 0.03
....Warehousing 1,401 0.01 1,395 0.01 6 0.00
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		1,023,682 9.78 946,370 9.76 77,312 10.15
Indirect agribusiness 19,776 0.19 17,960 0.19 1,816 0.24
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 1,253,266 11.98 1,126,563 11.61 126,703 16.63
All other employment 9,209,959 88.02 8,574,791 88.39 635,168 83.37
Total employment 10,463,225 100.00 9,701,354 100.00 761,871 100.00

*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