TABLE XVI.—SUMMARY showing, at the DATE of the CENSUS of 1891, the NUMBER of MALES (exclusive of CHINESE and ABORIGINES), at VARIOUS PERIODS of AGE, of DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS, arranged in SEVEN CLASSES, according to NUMERICAL IMPORTANCE.

CLASS.	OCCUPATIONS.	MALES.
		Periods of Age.										Employers of Labor.	On their Own Account (not employing labor).	Receiving Salary or Wages.	Unemployed.
		Under 5.	5 to 14.	15 to 20.	Under 21 Years.	21 and under 25.	25 and under 45.	45 and under 65.	65 and upwards.	21 and upwards.	Total.
	Total Population	23,010	40,981	18,351	82,342	11,802	44,031	19,358	5,497	80,688	163,030	15,492	11,380	69,339	2,898
	Total of Specified Occupations	22,971	40,383	18,008	81,362	11,802	43,462	19,158	5,195	79,617	160,979	15,492	11,380	69,339	2,898
	SECTION B.—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 detained in penal institutions	22,971	36,456	997	60,424	76	630	385	355	1,446	61,870
	SECTION A.—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		1,641	6,573	8,214	4,156	14,031	7,349	1,896	27,432	35,646	9,117	5,194	20,851	484
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		1,026	5,358	6,384	3,643	13,977	5,969	1,332	24,921	31,305	2,843	1,634	25,124	1,704
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		1,091	4,079	5,170	3,059	11,123	3,607	816	18,605	23,775	2,517	3,080	17,644	534
I.	Professional.—Embracing persons, not otherwise classed, engaged in the government and defence of the country, in maintaining law and order, and in satisfying the moral, intellectual, and social wants of its inhabitants		58	486	544	495	2,429	971	220	4,115	4,659	376	498	3,715	70
II.	Domestic.—Embracing persons engaged in the supply of board and lodging, and in rendering personal services for which payment is usually made		110	502	612	335	1,144	640	100	2,219	2,831	626	168	1,988	49
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	13	14	38	128	237	476	879	893	13	806	17	57
	Occupation not stated	39	598	343	980		569	200	302	1,071	2,051