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Texas 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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Texas 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
287,769 2.33 114,893 1.05 172,876 12.05
....Farm proprietors 236,410 1.92 97,034 0.89 139,376 9.72
....Farm wage and salary workers 51,359 0.42 17,859 0.16 33,500 2.34
Closely related:

Agricultural services
53,017 0.43 42,697 0.39 10,320 0.72
Agricultural input industries-- 17,075 0.14 10,481 0.10 6,594 0.46
....Agricultural chemicals 3,032 0.02 2,421 0.02 611 0.04
....Farm machinery and equipment 1,616 0.01 602 0.01 1,014 0.07
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 11,387 0.09 6,454 0.06 4,933 0.34
....Commodity contract brokers 1,040 0.01 1,004 0.01 36 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 141,404 1.15 103,698 0.95 37,706 2.63
....Meat products 36,776 0.30 18,061 0.17 18,715 1.30
....Dairy products 6,177 0.05 5,579 0.05 598 0.04
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 8,515 0.07 6,527 0.06 1,988 0.14
....Grain mill products 6,622 0.05 3,174 0.03 3,448 0.24
....Bakery products 12,934 0.10 11,936 0.11 998 0.07
....Sugar and confectionery products 3,914 0.03 2,827 0.03 1,087 0.08
....Fats and oils products 705 0.01 693 0.01 12 0.00
....Beverages 10,311 0.08 9,710 0.09 601 0.04
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 9,474 0.08 8,653 0.08 821 0.06
....Tobacco products 123 0.00 123 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 23,988 0.19 20,551 0.19 3,437 0.24
....Leather products and footwear 5,128 0.04 4,522 0.04 606 0.04
....Packaging 6,524 0.05 5,822 0.05 702 0.05
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 6,978 0.06 2,942 0.03 4,036 0.28
....Warehousing 3,235 0.03 2,578 0.02 657 0.05
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
1,249,807 10.14 1,110,572 10.20 139,069 9.70
Indirect agribusiness 25,745 0.21 21,264 0.20 4,481 0.31
Total farm & farm-related
employment
1,774,817 14.40 1,403,605 12.89 371,046 25.87
All other employment 10,550,566 85.60 9,487,623 87.11 1,063,109 74.13
Total employment 12,325,383 100.00 10,891,228 100.00 1,434,155 100.00

*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