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How are they making these categories of workers?

> Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Occupational Managers category (a sub-group of the Management major group)

> Agricultural Workers category (a sub-group of the Farming, Fishing, and Forestry major group)

Farmers aren't in the Farming major group? I'd like to see a little more detail here

Farm workers are classified as agricultural workers. farm managers / owners are classified separately.

There was a whole redacted study because of managers being accidentally lumped in with workers.

The full report (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6745a1.htm?s_cid=mm...) says they're using the Standard Occupational Classification system (https://www.bls.gov/soc/). You can read the full definitions at https://www.bls.gov/soc/2010/2010_major_groups.htm; farm managers are at 11-9013, agricultural workers are under 45-2000. The distinction in this case seems to be whether or not someone working on a farm is mostly a manager or mostly a laborer.