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Watauga County

QT-P27. Occupation by Sex: 2000

Occupation Both sexes Male Female
       
     Employed civilian population 16 years and over 21,349 11,418 9,931
Management, professional, and related occupations 7,318 3,480 3,838
    Management, business, and financial operations occupations 2,369 1,391 978
        Management occupations, except farmers and farm managers 1,697 1,034 663
        Farmers and farm managers 45 37 8
        Business and financial operations occupations 627 320 307
            Business operations specialists 246 121 125
            Financial specialists 381 199 182
    Professional and related occupations 4,949 2,089 2,860
        Computer and mathematical occupations 263 182 81
        Architecture and engineering occupations 262 181 81
            Architects, surveyors, cartographers, and engineers 129 115 14
            Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians 133 66 67
        Life, physical, and social science occupations 157 58 99
        Community and social services occupations 639 293 346
        Legal occupations 125 60 65
        Educations, training, and library occupations 2,119 821 1,298
        Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations 521 281 240
        Healthcare practioners and technical occupations 863 213 650
            Health diagnosing and treating practioners and technical occupations 653 175 478
            Health technologists and technicians 210 38 172
       
Service occupations 3,961 2,094 1,867
    Healthcare support occupations 278 66 212
    Protective service occupations 266 227 39
        Fire Fighting, prevention, and law enforcement workers, including supervisors 160 140 20
        Other protective service occupations, including supervisors 106 87 19
    Food prepartion and serving related occupations 1,902 1,056 846
    Building and grounds cleaning and maintenace occupations 1,004 583 421
    Personal care and service occupations 511 162 349
       
Sales and office occupations 5,679 2,136 3,543
    Sales and related occupations 2,739 1,385 1,354
    Office and administrative support occupations 2,940 751 2,189
       
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 205 174 31
Construction, extraction, and maintenace occupations 2,354 2,300 54
    Construction and extraction occupations 1,696 1,657 39
        Supervisors, construction and extraction workers 230 223 7
        Construction trades workers 1,452 1,420 32
        Extraction workers 14 14 0
    Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 658 643 15
       
Production, transportaion, and material moving occupations 1,832 1,234 598
    Production occupations 982 548 434
    Transportation and material moving occupations 850 686 164
        Supervisors, transportation and material moving workers 20 20 0
        Aircraft and traffic control occupations 4 4 0
        Motor vehicle operators 541 453 88
        Rail, water and other transportaion occupations 14 14 0
        Material moving workers 271 195 76

 

Date: October 2, 2002

[Data based on a sample]
(X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P50.
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