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Avery County

QT-P27. Occupation by Sex: 2000

Occupation Both sexes Male Female
       
     Employed civilian population 16 years and over 7,196 3,867 3,329
Management, professional, and related occupations 1,846 834 1,012
    Management, business, and financial operations occupations 795 496 299
        Management occupations, except farmers and farm managers 483 265 218
        Farmers and farm managers 157 149 8
        Business and financial operations occupations 155 82 73
            Business operations specialists 67 51 16
            Financial specialists 88 31 57
    Professional and related occupations 1,051 338 713
        Computer and mathematical occupations 48 36 12
        Architecture and engineering occupations 33 33 0
            Architects, surveyors, cartographers, and engineers 14 14 0
            Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians 19 19 0
        Life, physical, and social science occupations 58 40 18
        Community and social services occupations 132 62 70
        Legal occupations 37 19 18
        Educations, training, and library occupations 370 62 308
        Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations 66 32 34
        Healthcare practioners and technical occupations 307 54 253
            Health diagnosing and treating practioners and technical occupations 172 23 149
            Health technologists and technicians 135 31 104
       
Service occupations 1,490 688 802
    Healthcare support occupations 259 23 236
    Protective service occupations 208 167 41
        Fire Fighting, prevention, and law enforcement workers, including supervisors 168 127 41
        Other protective service occupations, including supervisors 40 40 0
    Food prepartion and serving related occupations 365 138 227
    Building and grounds cleaning and maintenace occupations 479 318 161
    Personal care and service occupations 179 42 137
       
Sales and office occupations 1,447 461 986
    Sales and related occupations 600 268 332
    Office and administrative support occupations 847 193 654
       
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 154 149 5
Construction, extraction, and maintenace occupations 1,087 1,062 25
    Construction and extraction occupations 723 709 14
        Supervisors, construction and extraction workers 113 113 0
        Construction trades workers 598 584 14
        Extraction workers 12 12 0
    Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 364 353 11
       
Production, transportaion, and material moving occupations 1,172 673 499
    Production occupations 760 388 372
    Transportation and material moving occupations 412 285 127
        Supervisors, transportation and material moving workers 0 0 0
        Aircraft and traffic control occupations 4 4 0
        Motor vehicle operators 205 152 53
        Rail, water and other transportaion occupations 0 0 0
        Material moving workers 203 129 74

 

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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