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West 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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West 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
22,394 2.53 7,938 1.51 14,456 4.03
....Farm proprietors 20,607 2.33 7,251 1.38 13,356 3.72
....Farm wage and salary workers 1,787 0.20 687 0.13 1,100 0.31
Closely related:

Agricultural services
2,341 0.26 1,374 0.26 967 0.27
Agricultural input industries-- 783 0.09 555 0.11 226 0.06
....Agricultural chemicals 452 0.05 450 0.09 2 0.00
....Farm machinery and equipment 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 326 0.04 105 0.02 219 0.06
....Commodity contract brokers 5 0.00 0 0.00 5 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 8,036 0.91 3,472 0.66 4,564 1.27
....Meat products 3,297 0.37 151 0.03 3,146 0.88
....Dairy products 271 0.03 202 0.04 69 0.02
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 221 0.02 179 0.03 42 0.01
....Grain mill products 53 0.01 20 0.00 33 0.01
....Bakery products 977 0.11 526 0.10 451 0.13
....Sugar and confectionery products 37 0.00 37 0.01 0 0.00
....Fats and oils products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Beverages 547 0.06 467 0.09 80 0.02
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 128 0.01 114 0.02 14 0.00
....Tobacco products 162 0.02 162 0.03 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 1,132 0.13 675 0.13 457 0.13
....Leather products and footwear 2 0.00 2 0.00 0 0.00
....Packaging 1,061 0.12 899 0.17 162 0.05
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 140 0.02 30 0.01 110 0.03
....Warehousing 8 0.00 8 0.00 0 0.00
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
93,760 10.59 56,490 10.74 37,270 10.38
Indirect agribusiness 902 0.10 833 0.16 69 0.02
Total farm & farm-related
employment
128,216 14.48 70,662 13.43 57,552 16.03
All other employment 757,012 85.52 455,440 86.57 301,574 83.97
Total employment 885,228 100.00 526,102 100.00 359,126 100.00

*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