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ACSResearchReport 129

Full-Time Employees,Sales, and Assets

of Selected Farmer

Cooperatives:

1981

y

1986, and 1991

Full-Time Employees, Sales, and Assets of Selected FarmerCooperatives:

1981,1986,

and 1991

Charles A. KraenzleDirector, Statistics and Technical Services StaffAgricultural Cooperative ServiceU.S. Department of AgricultureP.O. Box 96576Washington, DC 20090-6576This report examines the number of full-time employees, sales, and totalassets of a selected group of 509 farmer cooperatives that had reported thenumber of full-time employees, sales, and assets in 1981, 1986, and 1991 inresponse to Agricultural Cooperative Service’s (ACS) annual survey. Num-ber, sales, and assets per full-time employee and sales-to-assets ratio areshown by asset grouping and type. Employee numbers and sales and totalassets per full-time employee varied considerably by type and size over theyears.

Keywords: cooperatives, full-time employees, sales, total assets, statistics

ACS Research Report 129March 1994

Price: Domestic-$3.00: Foreign-$3.50

Preface

Since 1981, Agricultural Cooperative Service (ACS) has collected dataon the number of full-time employees every 5 years as part of its annualsurvey of farmer cooperatives. These data were published in the agency’sannual statistical reports. But this is the first study of trends and changes inemployee numbers.Cooperatives were asked to report the number of full-time employees atthe end of their business year.Each cooperative used its own criteria toidentify full-time employees. There was no way to identify any differences inhours worked by these employees. No information was collected on part-timeemployees.This report provides aggregate information on the number of full-time

employees of 509 selected cooperatives for

1981,1986,

and 1991 and how

numbers of and sales and total assets per full-time employee have changedby type of cooperative.Segregating cooperatives by type and total assets provides a morehomogeneous grouping for comparing changes between time periods andamong types of cooperatives. It also provides information that managers,directors, and others can use for comparing the number of full-time employeesin their organizations to the number of full-time employees used by the se-lected cooperatives of the same type and total asset category.Data were collected by

ACS’s

Statistics and Technical Services

Staff-

Celestine C. Adams, Katherine C.

DeVille,

Jacqueline E. Penn, Ralph M.Richardson, and John W. Stutzman.

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