TABLE III.—COMPARATIVE STATEMENT showing, at the DATE of the CENSUSES of 1891 and 1881, the NUMBER of PERSONS, MALES and FEMALES (exclusive of CHINESE and ABORIGINES), of DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS, arranged in SEVEN CLASSES, in ORDER of NUMERICAL IMPORTANCE.

CLASS.	OCCUPATIONS.	1891.			1881.
		PERSONS.	MALES.	FEMALES.	PERSONS.	MALES.	FEMALES.
	Total Population	316,560	163,030	153,530	279,865	149,530	130,335
	Total of Specified Occupations	312,814	160,979	151,835	277,469	148,234	129,235
	NON-BREADWINNERS.
VII.	Dependants.—Embracing wives, relatives, and others employed (if employed at all) in household or other pursuits for which payment is not usually made ; also children and others being educated, and persons supported by public or private charity or detailed in penal institutions	189,452	61,870	127,582	165,478	53,767	111,711
	BREADWINNERS.
V.	Primary Producers.—Embracing persons mainly engaged in the cultivation or acquisition of food products, and in obtaining other raw materials from natural sources	37,864	35,646	2,218	37,305	35,719	1,586
IV.	Industrial.—Embracing persons, not otherwise classed, engaged in works or specialities connected with the construction, modification, or alteration of materials, so as to render them more available for the use of man	36,911	31,305	5,606	37,571	33,918	3,653
III.	Commercial.—Embracing persons engaged in pursuits connected with the purchase, sale, exchange, hire, custody, and security of money, land, and goods ; and with the conveyance, distribution, and delivery of passengers, goods, and communications	25,749	23,775	1,974	18,617	18,061	556
II.	Domestic.—Embracing persons engaged in the supply of board and lodging, and in rendering personal services for which payment is usually made	14,001	2,831	11,170	11,910	2,249	9,661
I.	Professional.—Embracing persons, not otherwise classed, engaged in the government and defence of the country, in maintining law and order, and in satisfying the moral, intellectual, and social wants of its inhabitants	7,259	4,659	2,600	5,965	4,075	1,890
VI.	Indefinite.—Embracing persons living upon incomes awarded for services rendered at some previous period, or upon incomes the source of which is not perfectly defined	1,578	893	685	623	445	178
	Occupation not stated	3,746	2,051	1,695	2,396	1,296	1,100