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Tennessee 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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Tennessee 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 		105,851 3.06 45,531 1.70 60,320 7.69
....Farm proprietors 94,077 2.72 40,505 1.51 53,572 6.83
....Farm wage and salary workers 11,774 0.34 5,026 0.19 6,748 0.86
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		9,954 0.29 7,435 0.28 2,519 0.32
Agricultural input industries-- 6,446 0.19 4,876 0.18 1,568 0.20
....Agricultural chemicals 478 0.01 476 0.02 2 0.00
....Farm machinery and equipment 577 0.02 143 0.01 434 0.06
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 5,254 0.15 4,120 0.15 1,132 0.14
....Commodity contract brokers 137 0.00 137 0.01 0 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 67,253 1.94 45,973 1.72 21,280 2.71
....Meat products 10,034 0.29 5,015 0.19 5,019 0.64
....Dairy products 2,865 0.08 1,963 0.07 902 0.11
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 2,621 0.08 1,620 0.06 1,001 0.13
....Grain mill products 3,233 0.09 3,086 0.12 147 0.02
....Bakery products 14,992 0.43 13,740 0.51 1,252 0.16
....Sugar and confectionery products 3,366 0.10 2,348 0.09 1,018 0.13
....Fats and oils products 1,014 0.03 1,007 0.04 7 0.00
....Beverages 2,753 0.08 1,858 0.07 895 0.11
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 1,200 0.03 745 0.03 455 0.06
....Tobacco products 968 0.03 902 0.03 66 0.01
....Apparel and textiles 16,975 0.49 8,510 0.32 8,465 1.08
....Leather products and footwear 2,037 0.06 1,546 0.06 491 0.06
....Packaging 2,698 0.08 1,863 0.07 835 0.11
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,916 0.06 1,223 0.05 693 0.09
....Warehousing 581 0.02 547 0.02 34 0.00
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		357,679 10.33 276,458 10.32 81,221 10.35
Indirect agribusiness 16,292 0.47 12,451 0.46 3,841 0.49
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 563,475 16.27 392,724 14.66 170,749 21.76
All other employment 2,900,051 83.73 2,285,944 85.34 614,109 78.24
Total employment 3,463,526 100.00 2,678,668 100.00 784,858 100.00

*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