I'm looking for a tabulation of the US population by categories based
on how they earn their money - for example if 288 million people, then
22 million are students earning a living from parents. 90 million
retired earning their income through SS and retirement funds. 20
million in the government receiving money from the us taxpayer. 8
million farmers earning through selling their crops. Etc.I'm looking
for data to support my premise that only about 10% of the population
is receiving income from farming/fisheries, mining, manufacturing,
transportation or intellectual activities which now accounts for about
60% of gDP

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Request for Question Clarification by answerfinder-ga on 06 Nov 2002 04:54 PST

Dear sparky123-ga
I have found some very detailed information from 1992 which covers
most sectors of the United States economy in 1992.
The data provided in sectors and then by job classification.
Does this meet your requirement?
answerfinder-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by answerfinder-ga on 06 Nov 2002 05:10 PST

Dear sparky123-ga
I now withdraw the above as upon further inspection it does not
provide all the information you require.
answerfinder-ga

I have been thinking along similar lines for almost a decade but have
found little data that is believable. Skill in lying seems to have
increased. Most of us fit multiple catagories, so perhaps you should
think half persons, 3/8 th persons ect, to avoid a total around 200%. 
22 million students may be low, but your other tentative numbers are
high, especially the 60% I suspect up to 90% of the GDP is overhead,
fluff, and things that are harmful rather than helpful. We could have
lots more leisure and a utopia, I suspect, if we could find a way to
direct our energies to basic necessities.   Neil

The 1997 Economic Census provides data such as:

Logging Industry had 83,203 employees with a total annual payroll of
$2,011,9260,000.

The population in 1997 was 267,743,595.

There are many other categories.

Try http://www.census.gov

hlabadie-ga

Just a thought re: "...for example if 288 million people, then 22
million are students earning a living from parents." EARNING a living?
 Holy cow! I am rendered speechless, which will flabbergast my kids.