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Wilkes 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 22.4% 19.4% 26.0%
    Management, business, and financial operations occupations 10.0% 11.0% 8.8%
        Management occupations, except farmers and farm managers 5.4% 6.4% 4.1%
        Farmers and farm managers 1.4% 2.0% 0.8%
        Business and financial operations occupations 3.2% 2.6% 3.9%
            Business operations specialists 2.0% 1.7% 2.3%
            Financial specialists 1.2% 0.9% 1.6%
    Professional and related occupations 12.4% 8.4% 17.2%
        Computer and mathematical occupations 1.2% 1.6% 0.8%
        Architecture and engineering occupations 1.1% 1.6% 0.4%
            Architects, surveyors, cartographers, and engineers 0.5% 0.8% 0.2%
            Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians 0.5% 0.8% 0.3%
        Life, physical, and social science occupations 0.4% 0.3% 0.5%
        Community and social services occupations 1.1% 0.9% 1.3%
        Legal occupations 0.2% 0.1% 0.2%
        Education, training, and library occupations 4.3% 1.8% 7.4%
        Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations 0.9% 0.7% 1.1%
        Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations 3.2% 1.3% 5.5%
            Health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations 2.2% 0.9% 3.9%
            Health technologists and technicians 1.0% 0.5% 1.6%
       
Service occupations 12.3% 7.5% 18.2%
    Healthcare support occupations 2.3% 0.2% 4.9%
    Protective service occupations 1.3% 2.1% 0.4%
        Fire Fighting, prevention, and law enforcement workers, including supervisors 0.8% 1.4% 0.1%
        Other protective service occupations, including supervisors 0.5% 0.6% 0.2%
    Food prepartion and serving related occupations 3.4% 1.4% 5.9%
    Building and grounds cleaning and maintenace occupations 3.4% 3.6% 3.2%
    Personal care and service occupations 1.8% 0.2% 3.8%
       
Sales and office occupations 23.2% 15.9% 32.0%
    Sales and related occupations 9.1% 9.3% 8.9%
    Office and administrative support occupations 14.1% 6.7% 23.1%
       
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 1.6% 2.3% 0.8%
Construction, extraction, and maintenace occupations 11.4% 20.3% 0.7%
    Construction and extraction occupations 6.1% 11.0% 0.2%
        Supervisors, construction and extraction workers 0.9% 1.7% 0.0%
        Construction trades workers 5.1% 9.2% 0.2%
        Extraction workers 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
    Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 5.3% 9.3% 0.5%
       
Production, transportaion, and material moving occupations 29.1% 34.6% 22.4%
    Production occupations 19.4% 20.3% 18.4%
    Transportation and material moving occupations 9.7% 14.3% 4.0%
        Supervisors, transportation and material moving workers 0.2% 0.3% 0.0%
        Aircraft and traffic control occupations 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
        Motor vehicle operators 4.5% 7.3% 1.0%
        Rail, water and other transportaion occupations 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
        Material moving workers 4.9% 6.6% 2.9%

 

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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