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Virginia 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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Virginia 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 		61,605 1.38 32,611 0.83 28,994 5.55
....Farm proprietors 49,760 1.12 26,342 0.67 23,418 4.48
....Farm wage and salary workers 11,845 0.27 6,269 0.16 5,576 1.07
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		18,939 0.43 15,895 0.40 3,044 0.58
Agricultural input industries-- 3,623 0.08 2,677 0.07 944 0.18
....Agricultural chemicals 337 0.01 254 0.01 83 0.02
....Farm machinery and equipment 287 0.01 252 0.01 35 0.01
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 2,881 0.06 2,053 0.05 826 0.16
....Commodity contract brokers 118 0.00 118 0.00 0 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 69,719 1.57 48,640 1.24 21,079 4.03
....Meat products 18,555 0.42 12,873 0.33 5,682 1.09
....Dairy products 2,150 0.05 2,097 0.05 53 0.01
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 1,059 0.02 841 0.02 218 0.04
....Grain mill products 1,207 0.03 923 0.02 284 0.05
....Bakery products 3,644 0.08 3,590 0.09 54 0.01
....Sugar and confectionery products 1,102 0.02 179 0.00 923 0.18
....Fats and oils products 193 0.00 193 0.00 0 0.00
....Beverages 3,654 0.08 3,151 0.08 503 0.10
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 2,845 0.06 2,218 0.06 627 0.12
....Tobacco products 6,144 0.14 6,076 0.15 68 0.01
....Apparel and textiles 22,496 0.50 10,980 0.28 11,516 2.20
....Leather products and footwear 362 0.01 362 0.01 0 0.00
....Packaging 2,937 0.07 2,607 0.07 330 0.06
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 1,625 0.04 1,228 0.03 397 0.08
....Warehousing 1,746 0.04 1,322 0.03 424 0.08
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		424,282 9.52 370,145 9.41 54,137 10.35
Indirect agribusiness 13,088 0.29 8,955 0.23 4,133 0.79
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 591,256 13.27 478,923 12.18 112,331 21.48
All other employment 3,863,422 86.73 3,452,919 87.82 410,505 78.52
Total employment 4,454,678 100.00 3,931,842 100.00 522,836 100.00

*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