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Wilkes County

QT-P27. Occupation by Sex: 2000

Occupation Both sexes Male Female
       
     Employed civilian population 16 years and over 31,632 17,381 14,251
Management, professional, and related occupations 7,082 3,377 3,705
    Management, business, and financial operations occupations 3,165 1,917 1,248
        Management occupations, except farmers and farm managers 1,697 1,115 582
        Farmers and farm managers 456 348 108
        Business and financial operations occupations 1,012 454 558
            Business operations specialists 619 295 324
            Financial specialists 393 159 234
    Professional and related occupations 3,917 1,460 2,457
        Computer and mathematical occupations 390 282 108
        Architecture and engineering occupations 336 272 64
            Architects, surveyors, cartographers, and engineers 166 139 27
            Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians 170 133 37
        Life, physical, and social science occupations 122 48 74
        Community and social services occupations 350 161 189
        Legal occupations 54 21 33
        Educations, training, and library occupations 1,374 321 1,053
        Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations 275 123 152
        Healthcare practioners and technical occupations 1,016 232 784
            Health diagnosing and treating practioners and technical occupations 702 153 549
            Health technologists and technicians 314 79 235
       
Service occupations 3,886 1,298 2,588
    Healthcare support occupations 734 38 696
    Protective service occupations 411 357 54
        Fire Fighting, prevention, and law enforcement workers, including supervisors 267 248 19
        Other protective service occupations, including supervisors 144 109 35
    Food prepartion and serving related occupations 1,082 242 840
    Building and grounds cleaning and maintenace occupations 1,084 631 453
    Personal care and service occupations 575 30 545
       
Sales and office occupations 7,328 2,765 4,563
    Sales and related occupations 2,880 1,608 1,272
    Office and administrative support occupations 4,448 1,157 3,291
       
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 513 400 113
Construction, extraction, and maintenace occupations 3,621 3,527 94
    Construction and extraction occupations 1,942 1,919 23
        Supervisors, construction and extraction workers 300 300 0
        Construction trades workers 1,626 1,603 23
        Extraction workers 16 16 0
    Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 1,679 1,608 71
       
Production, transportaion, and material moving occupations 9,202 6,014 3,188
    Production occupations 6,147 3,524 2,623
    Transportation and material moving occupations 3,055 2,490 565
        Supervisors, transportation and material moving workers 57 52 5
        Aircraft and traffic control occupations 0 0 0
        Motor vehicle operators 1,410 1,269 141
        Rail, water and other transportaion occupations 27 27 0
        Material moving workers 1,561 1,142 419

 

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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