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<br />Water Management Study: Upper Rio Grande Basin <br /> <br />Table 2.2.-Agricultural and total employment in the study area <br /> Employment growlh, <br /> Employment in 1993 1982 -9 3 (percent) <br /> Agriculture Tolal Agriculture' <br /> Total. Agriculture' % oftolal (%) (%) <br />Santa Fe MSA' 88,369 1,000 1.13 62.39 40.65 <br />Albuquerque MSA' 369,912 4,292 1.16 50.60 28.31 <br />Socorro County 6,462 630 9.75 28.37 18.42 <br />Sierra County 3,654 421 11.52 36.34 -2.32 <br />Las Cruces MSA' 62,426 5,212 8.35 49.43 38.21 <br />EI Paso MSA' 288,807 2,523 0.87 30.07 34.70 <br />Total study area 819,630 14,078 1.72 43.40 32.03 <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />{- <br /> <br />!' <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />t <br /> <br />(" <br /> <br />Source: ECONorthwest with data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic <br />Analysis (1994a). <br />, Agricultural employment includes farm employment and employment in the agricultural services <br />industry. <br />, MSA - Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the Census Bureau. <br /> <br />;.: <br /> <br />~., <br /> <br />f.~ <br />;.~ <br /> <br />metropolitan areas.' For the study area as a whole, growth in agricultural <br />employment during the past decade did not keep pace with total <br />employment. <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />~"{: <br /> <br />The data on income, shown in Table 2.3, follow a similar pattern, but with <br />some important differences. In 1993, proprietors and employees in the study <br />area's agricultural industry earned income of about $269 million, or one <br />percent of total income. Agricultural incomes have grown more rapidly than <br />incomes in other sectors during the past decade, largely because farm <br />incomes were depressed throughout the nation in the early 1980s. <br />Nonetheless, average earnings per employee in the agricultural industry are <br />approximately two-thirds of the overall average. <br /> <br />~'t; <br />t~~ <br /> <br />n <br /> <br />t;':_~ <br /> <br />These data indicate that the agricultural industry, the resource-intensive <br />industry primarily associated with the Upper Rio Grande Basin, generally <br /> <br />3 Agriculture also is a larger component of the economy in the area north ofthe Santa Fe <br />MSA. <br /> <br />f'~: <br />C: <br /> <br />46 <br /> <br />f,' (202'" <br />t ',: :J I <br />