Farm and Farm-Related Employment: Download Data

You can download the farm and farm-related employment data. There are two types of files: a comma-separated file (CSV) and a Microsoft Excel file (XLS). Both formats are available compressed into smaller ZIP files.

Release Date

March 2005

Data Layout

1. Geographic area, i.e., U.S., States, farm production regions, or farm resource regions
2. Year, 1981-2002
3. Farm industry variables, i.e., meat products, dairy products, farm proprietors
4. Total employment
5. Metro area employment
6. Nonmetro area employment
7. Statewide, unclassified employment

Data Files

• Comma separated file (CSV), 3,315 KB
• Compressed comma separated file (ZIP), 579 KB

• Excel spreadsheet (XLS), 4,461 KB
• Compressed Excel spreadsheet (ZIP), 1,122 KB