WSP04630

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Missouri River
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 12/1/1971
• Author: Missouri Basin Inter
• Title: Missouri River Basin Comprehensive Framework Study - Volume IV - Economic Analysis and Projections - Appendix
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

declines, rural farm population fell by slightly more than
one million people between 1940 and 1960. This was a
loss of 40 percent in the region compared to 56 percent
for the Nation during the same period.
The rural nonfarm category increased by only 20 per-
cent in the region from 1940 to 1960. Nationally, rural

nonfarm population increased by 49 percent. Urban
population in both the region and the Nation increased
68 percent between 1940 and 1960.
Historic growth rates by individual subregion in the
region and the changing composition of population in
each subregion are shown in figure 3.
.

FIGURE 3
RURAL FARM, RURAL NONFARM AND URBAN POPULATION
MISSOURI RIVER SUBREGIONS
1940. 1950 AND /960

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MISSOURI STONE DAKOTA

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EASTERN PLATTE-
DAKOTA NIOBRARA

SUBR EGIONS

EMPLOYMENT

For purposes of this appendix, employment in the
region has been grouped into four broad categories:
agriculture, manufacturing, other commodity, and
noncommodity-producing industries. This grouping was
initially formulated by the Office of Business Economics
in developing employment data and projections and was
continued by the Economic Work Group. While
information on historic and projected employment at
the two-digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
levell was available during the disaggregation process,
the degree of reliability was not felt sufficient in

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'40 '50 '60
MIDDLE
MISSOURI

2.5

2.0

1.5

1.0

'40 '50 '60
KANSAS

'40 '50 '60
LOWER
MISSOURI

projections to justify separate treatment at this level of
detail.
Throughout this discussion of employment and in
later discussions as well, employment is treated in terms
of these four broad categories, with individual analyses
of two-digit industries whenever warranted. The four
industrial employment categories are: Agriculture,
manufacturing, other commodity-producing which in-
cludes mining and contract construction, and
noncommodity-producing which is roughly comparable

1 The two-digit Standard Industrial Classification Code divides
all industrial employment into 32 categories.