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United States 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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United States 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 		3,074,946 1.84 1,427,691 1.01 1,647,255 6.49
....Farm proprietors 2,188,957 1.31 875,605 0.62 1,313,352 5.17
....Farm wage and salary workers 885,989 0.53 552,086 0.39 333,903 1.31
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		630,752 0.38 460,997 0.33 169,747 0.67
Agricultural input industries-- 305,680 0.18 182,877 0.13 122,773 0.48
....Agricultural chemicals 35,137 0.02 24,642 0.02 10,495 0.04
....Farm machinery and equipment 57,276 0.03 28,003 0.02 29,273 0.12
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 186,705 0.11 104,811 0.07 81,864 0.32
....Commodity contract brokers 26,562 0.02 25,421 0.02 1,141 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 2,518,661 1.51 1,747,343 1.23 771,108 3.04
....Meat products 503,939 0.30 254,044 0.18 249,895 0.98
....Dairy products 134,581 0.08 99,137 0.07 35,444 0.14
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 178,013 0.11 124,121 0.09 53,892 0.21
....Grain mill products 103,347 0.06 66,497 0.05 36,850 0.15
....Bakery products 244,833 0.15 216,042 0.15 28,791 0.11
....Sugar and confectionery products 83,163 0.05 66,436 0.05 16,727 0.07
....Fats and oils products 17,132 0.01 12,380 0.01 4,752 0.02
....Beverages 154,220 0.09 138,020 0.10 16,200 0.06
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 155,542 0.09 118,937 0.08 36,395 0.14
....Tobacco products 24,273 0.01 22,520 0.02 1,753 0.01
....Apparel and textiles 606,472 0.36 428,342 0.30 178,130 0.70
....Leather products and footwear 50,136 0.03 37,149 0.03 12,987 0.05
....Packaging 127,755 0.08 94,253 0.07 33,502 0.13
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 93,128 0.06 36,187 0.03 56,941 0.22
....Warehousing 42,127 0.03 33,278 0.02 8,849 0.03
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		16,829,674 10.08 14,252,787 10.07 2,576,673 10.15
Indirect agribusiness 489,175 0.29 389,939 0.28 99,236 0.39
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 23,848,888 14.28 18,461,634 13.04 5,386,792 21.21
All other employment 143,152,475 85.72 123,142,664 86.96 20,010,273 78.79
Total employment 167,001,363 100.00 141,604,298 100.00 25,397,065 100.00

*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