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Watauga 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 34.3% 30.5% 38.6%
    Management, business, and financial operations occupations 11.1% 12.2% 9.8%
        Management occupations, except farmers and farm managers 7.9% 9.1% 6.7%
        Farmers and farm managers 0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
        Business and financial operations occupations 2.9% 2.8% 3.1%
            Business operations specialists 1.2% 1.1% 1.3%
            Financial specialists 1.8% 1.7% 1.8%
    Professional and related occupations 23.2% 18.3% 28.8%
        Computer and mathematical occupations 1.2% 1.6% 0.8%
        Architecture and engineering occupations 1.2% 1.6% 0.8%
            Architects, surveyors, cartographers, and engineers 0.6% 1.0% 0.1%
            Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians 0.6% 0.6% 0.7%
        Life, physical, and social science occupations 0.7% 0.5% 1.0%
        Community and social services occupations 3.0% 2.6% 3.5%
        Legal occupations 0.6% 0.5% 0.7%
        Education, training, and library occupations 9.9% 7.2% 13.1%
        Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations 2.4% 2.5% 2.4%
        Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations 4.0% 1.9% 6.5%
            Health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations 3.1% 1.5% 4.8%
            Health technologists and technicians 1.0% 0.3% 1.7%
       
Service occupations 18.6% 18.3% 18.8%
    Healthcare support occupations 1.3% 0.6% 2.1%
    Protective service occupations 1.2% 2.0% 0.4%
        Fire Fighting, prevention, and law enforcement workers, including supervisors 0.7% 1.2% 0.2%
        Other protective service occupations, including supervisors 0.5% 0.8% 0.2%
    Food prepartion and serving related occupations 8.9% 9.2% 8.5%
    Building and grounds cleaning and maintenace occupations 4.7% 5.1% 4.2%
    Personal care and service occupations 2.4% 1.4% 3.5%
       
Sales and office occupations 26.6% 18.7% 35.7%
    Sales and related occupations 12.8% 12.1% 13.6%
    Office and administrative support occupations 13.8% 6.6% 22.0%
       
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 1.0% 1.5% 0.3%
Construction, extraction, and maintenace occupations 11.0% 20.1% 0.5%
    Construction and extraction occupations 7.9% 14.5% 0.4%
        Supervisors, construction and extraction workers 1.1% 2.0% 0.1%
        Construction trades workers 6.8% 12.4% 0.3%
        Extraction workers 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
    Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 3.1% 5.6% 0.2%
       
Production, transportaion, and material moving occupations 8.6% 10.8% 6.0%
    Production occupations 4.6% 4.8% 4.4%
    Transportation and material moving occupations 4.0% 6.0% 1.7%
        Supervisors, transportation and material moving workers 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
        Aircraft and traffic control occupations 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
        Motor vehicle operators 2.5% 4.0% 0.9%
        Rail, water and other transportaion occupations 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
        Material moving workers 1.3% 1.7% 0.8%

 

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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