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Pennsylvania 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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Pennsylvania 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
84,518 1.21 50,674 0.84 33,844 3.57
....Farm proprietors 61,051 0.87 34,523 0.57 26,528 2.79
....Farm wage and salary workers 23,467 0.34 16,151 0.27 7,316 0.77
Closely related:

Agricultural services
19,526 0.28 13,616 0.23 5,910 0.62
Agricultural input industries-- 8,632 0.12 6,806 0.11 1,826 0.19
....Agricultural chemicals 984 0.01 894 0.01 90 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 1,316 0.02 1,262 0.02 54 0.01
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 6,160 0.09 4,481 0.07 1,679 0.18
....Commodity contract brokers 172 0.00 169 0.00 3 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 123,597 1.77 98,088 1.62 25,509 2.69
....Meat products 15,224 0.22 11,759 0.19 3,465 0.37
....Dairy products 7,640 0.11 6,850 0.11 790 0.08
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 6,709 0.10 4,104 0.07 2,605 0.27
....Grain mill products 4,648 0.07 3,371 0.06 1,277 0.13
....Bakery products 20,523 0.29 17,139 0.28 3,384 0.36
....Sugar and confectionery products 11,876 0.17 11,631 0.19 245 0.03
....Fats and oils products 42 0.00 19 0.00 23 0.00
....Beverages 6,201 0.09 5,805 0.10 396 0.04
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 4,633 0.07 3,598 0.06 1,035 0.11
....Tobacco products 1,224 0.02 760 0.01 464 0.05
....Apparel and textiles 29,495 0.42 22,329 0.37 7,166 0.75
....Leather products and footwear 3,164 0.05 1,985 0.03 1,179 0.12
....Packaging 9,044 0.13 6,074 0.10 2,970 0.31
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,294 0.02 824 0.01 470 0.05
....Warehousing 1,880 0.03 1,840 0.03 40 0.00
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
707,511 10.12 607,719 10.06 99,792 10.51
Indirect agribusiness 23,643 0.34 19,427 0.32 4,216 0.44
Total farm & farm-related
employment
967,427 13.84 796,330 13.19 171,097 18.03
All other employment 6,020,455 86.16 5,242,376 86.81 778,079 81.97
Total employment 6,987,882 100.00 6,038,706 100.00 949,176 100.00

*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