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Mitchell County

QT-P28. Occupation by Sex - Percent Distribution: 2000

Occupation Both sexes Male Female
       
Employed civilian population 16 years and over 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Management, professional, and related occupations 21.0% 15.7% 27.6%
    Management, business, and financial operations occupations 6.7% 5.9% 7.8%
        Management occupations, except farmers and farm managers 4.5% 3.6% 5.7%
        Farmers and farm managers 0.3% 0.5% 0.0%
        Business and financial operations occupations 2.0% 1.8% 2.1%
            Business operations specialists 0.4% 0.8% 0.0%
            Financial specialists 1.5% 1.1% 2.1%
    Professional and related occupations 14.3% 9.8% 19.8%
        Computer and mathematical occupations 0.5% 0.6% 0.3%
        Architecture and engineering occupations 1.3% 1.9% 0.5%
            Architects, surveyors, cartographers, and engineers 0.4% 0.6% 0.1%
            Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians 0.9% 1.3% 0.4%
        Life, physical, and social science occupations 0.4% 0.5% 0.2%
        Community and social services occupations 2.0% 2.4% 1.5%
        Legal occupations 0.5% 0.3% 0.7%
        Education, training, and library occupations 4.9% 1.6% 8.8%
        Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations 1.5% 1.6% 1.4%
        Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations 3.3% 0.9% 6.3%
            Health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations 2.1% 0.5% 4.1%
            Health technologists and technicians 1.2% 0.4% 2.2%
       
Service occupations 15.8% 12.2% 20.3%
    Healthcare support occupations 3.2% 0.0% 7.3%
    Protective service occupations 2.8% 4.4% 0.8%
        Fire Fighting, prevention, and law enforcement workers, including supervisors 2.5% 3.9% 0.8%
        Other protective service occupations, including supervisors 0.3% 0.5% 0.0%
    Food prepartion and serving related occupations 3.9% 2.6% 5.5%
    Building and grounds cleaning and maintenace occupations 3.9% 4.4% 3.4%
    Personal care and service occupations 1.9% 0.7% 3.4%
       
Sales and office occupations 19.6% 12.5% 28.4%
    Sales and related occupations 9.0% 7.7% 10.6%
    Office and administrative support occupations 10.6% 4.7% 17.8%
       
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 1.6% 2.9% 0.0%
Construction, extraction, and maintenace occupations 11.7% 21.0% 0.3%
    Construction and extraction occupations 6.1% 10.9% 0.2%
        Supervisors, construction and extraction workers 1.0% 1.7% 0.2%
        Construction trades workers 4.3% 7.8% 0.0%
        Extraction workers 0.8% 1.4% 0.0%
    Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 5.6% 10.1% 0.1%
       
Production, transportaion, and material moving occupations 30.2% 35.7% 23.4%
    Production occupations 22.3% 23.8% 20.4%
    Transportation and material moving occupations 8.0% 12.0% 3.0%
        Supervisors, transportation and material moving workers 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
        Aircraft and traffic control occupations 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
        Motor vehicle operators 3.6% 5.9% 0.8%
        Rail, water and other transportaion occupations 0.5% 0.9% 0.0%
        Material moving workers 3.7% 5.0% 2.2%

 

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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