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Table 2-A-2 Emnlovment Mobility of the Navaio Nation <br />Sector Net flow of workers from reservation <br />Livestock, P~griculture +301' <br />Mining -5232 <br />New Construction and Repairs -3879 <br />Combined manufacturing +1562 <br />Transportation, Communication, <br />and Utilities -356 <br />Wholesale and Retail Trade +4017 <br />F.1.R.E +101 <br />Health, Educ., and Govt. services -4610 <br />1. + indicates flow from reservation, for instance, in livestock and agriculture, 301 workers leave <br />the reservation to work <br />2. -indicates flow to the reservation, i.e., in the mining sector, 523 workers come from off of the <br />reservation to work on the reservation. <br />C. Population <br />1. Arizona: Apache, Coconino, and Navajo Counties <br />More than in any of the other counties in the study, Native American lands dominate the Arizona <br />counties of Apache, Coconino, and Navajo. The Navajo and Hopi Reservations comprise <br />approximately fifty percent of the land area of the three counties. <br />The population of Apache County was 61,591 in 1990. Of those, forty-one percent are under the <br />age of eighteen, and only seven percent over sixty-five. Of the county's population, 46,856 live <br />on the Navajo Reservation. The total number of occupied households is 15,981 with an average <br />of 3.8 persons per household. <br />Coconino county's population in 1990 was 102,807, with roughly half (50,645) residing in <br />Flagstaff. This represents an increase in population of roughly twenty-five percent since 1980. <br />9 <br />