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65\ Table 1. Labor and Proprietor Income from Farming, Colorado Counties, 1987 The data in this table is from the US, Department of Commerce Regional Economic Information System (REIS) (lfl, Note that the V,S, Department of Commerce (DOC) I'Farm Labor and Proprietors' Income" used here differs from VSDA net farm income, DOC estimates labor and proprietor income from farming, sometimes referred to as If earned income," by adjusting VSDA deprecia- tion estimates to a straight line method (consistent with DOC esti- mates of depreciation in other indus- tries), subtracting the income of corporate farms, and adding all farm wages and salaries including cash and pay-in-kind of farm labor and salaries of officers of corporate farms. Be- cause of the inclusion of farm wages, estimated labor and proprietor income from farming is larger and more stable year to year than VSDA net farm income, This DOC definition of farm income is used throughout this report to be comparable with nonfarm sectors, The order and grouping of counties in Table I is according to the importance of farm earnings to total county income, Counties with over 20 percent of their income from farming are designated "farm dependent" This designation is consistent with the methodology developed by the V,S, Department of Agriculture Cl and .2); counties with at least 20 percent of their income from a specific industry have been found to be economically "dependent" on that industry, Coun- ties in the 10 to 20 percent range are designated "farm important" in this report, , . , Appendix B - Methodology 21 Table 2. Labor and Proprietor Income by Sector, Colorado Counties, 1987 Basic data for the Appendix A tables on income and employment are from US, Department of Commerce Regional Economic Infonnation System (REIS) (lfl and County Business Patterns, 1987, Colorado (ll), Agricultural related sectors were compiled using rhe 1982 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code industries, as described below, Because of limitations on the disclosure of individual establish- ments, Department of Commerce reports do not show county level data for industries with one or two estab- lishments or with less than 20 em- ployees (less than 100 or less than 250 in some cases); however these suppressed data are included in state totals and the totals for all counties suppressed can be determined by subtracting the total of counties shown from the state totaL This report estimates income and employment in suppressed counties by allocating the total for all suppressed counties back to individual counties based on the relative size of larger and similiar sector categories where county data is shown, Except for the farm produc- tion sector, most individual county sector data of less than 100 employ- ees and earnings of less than $1 million are estimates unique to this report, and not official Department of Commerce numbers, Such esllmates do not represent the actual employ- ment and payroll for Individual establishments In these counties, Specific SIC industry codes included in each sector shown in Table 2 are as follows: Agricu1turallnput Sector. Esti- mated as the total labor and proprie- tor income of industries in SIC codes 07-08-09 (Agricultural services, forestry, fisheries); SIC 287 (Manufac- turing agricultural chemicals); SIC 352 (Manufacturing farm and garden machinery); SIC 5083 (Wholesale farm machinery and equipment); SIC 497 (Irrigation systems); SIC 5083 (Whole- sale farm machinery); SIC 5191 (Wholesale farm supplies); SIC 613 (Agricultural credit institutions); and SIC 622 (Commodity contracts bro- kers, dealers). Production Sector. County farm production sector earnings for 1987 are from (lfl, Processing and Marketing Sector. Earnings in industries SIC 20 (Manufacturing of food and kindred products); SIC 3551 (Manufacturing food products machinery); and SIC 515 (Wholesale raw farm products), Food Wholesaling and Retail- ing Sectors. Earnings for SIC 514 (Wholesale groceries and related products); SIC 54 (Food stores); and SIC 58 (Eating and drinking places). Total Colorado Income. Total earnings by industry from the V,S, Department of Commerce (lfl. It should be noted that the definition of the Colorado farm and food system used in this report is narrower than the definition of the V,S, Food and Fiber System described by the V,S, Department of Agriculture Cl, Q) and (.'D. VSDA attempts to include all industries that contribute to the total economic activity required to support the delivery of food, clothing and shoes and tobacco to domestic consumers and to support agricultural exports, Included are a number of SIC codes in what VSDA designates as "primary industries" (used all of their work force in the production necessary to satisfy the V,S, final demands for food and fiber) and ({secondary industries" (used between 50 and 100 percent of their work force in production necessary to satisfy the V.S, final demands for food and fiber) a, p.36) The Colorado estimates in this report exch.lde many of these industries because (a) so few are employed in most counties that disclosure restrictions limit county data, or (b) they appear unrelated to Colorado agricultural production (for example, tobacco, apparel and printing).