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Ohio 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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Ohio 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 		95,534 1.43 41,081 0.74 54,453 4.84
....Farm proprietors 80,858 1.21 33,111 0.59 47,747 4.24
....Farm wage and salary workers 14,676 0.22 7,970 0.14 6,706 0.60
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		19,849 0.30 15,923 0.29 3,926 0.35
Agricultural input industries-- 9,284 0.14 5,069 0.09 4,206 0.37
....Agricultural chemicals 1,252 0.02 947 0.02 305 0.03
....Farm machinery and equipment 907 0.01 393 0.01 514 0.05
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 6,907 0.10 3,528 0.06 3,370 0.30
....Commodity contract brokers 218 0.00 201 0.00 17 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 74,200 1.11 47,258 0.85 26,942 2.39
....Meat products 7,434 0.11 4,149 0.07 3,285 0.29
....Dairy products 6,389 0.10 5,211 0.09 1,178 0.10
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 11,926 0.18 5,911 0.11 6,015 0.53
....Grain mill products 4,814 0.07 3,282 0.06 1,532 0.14
....Bakery products 11,255 0.17 7,717 0.14 3,538 0.31
....Sugar and confectionery products 1,893 0.03 1,422 0.03 471 0.04
....Fats and oils products 974 0.01 352 0.01 622 0.06
....Beverages 6,782 0.10 5,918 0.11 864 0.08
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 3,766 0.06 2,930 0.05 836 0.07
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 3,098 0.05 2,070 0.04 1,028 0.09
....Leather products and footwear 1,249 0.02 806 0.01 443 0.04
....Packaging 10,587 0.16 5,552 0.10 5,035 0.45
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 3,134 0.05 1,080 0.02 2,054 0.18
....Warehousing 899 0.01 858 0.02 41 0.00
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		719,018 10.73 603,479 10.82 115,539 10.27
Indirect agribusiness 26,350 0.39 18,942 0.34 7,408 0.66
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 944,235 14.08 731,752 13.12 212,474 18.88
All other employment 5,759,756 85.92 4,846,952 86.88 912,813 81.12
Total employment 6,703,991 100.00 5,578,704 100.00 1,125,287 100.00

*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