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

CLASS.	OCCUPATIONS.	FEMALES.
		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	22,255	39,899	18,668	80,822	11,832	38,217	17,536	5,123	72,708	153,530	1,002	2,497	20,340	414
	Total of Specified Occupations	22,245	38,614	18,437	79,296	11,832	38,141	17,493	5,073	72,539	151,835	1,002	2,497	20,340	414
	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	22,245	37,138	9,866	69,249	7,351	32,012	14,754	4,216	58,333	127,582
	SECTION A.—BREADWINNERS.
II.	Domestic.—Embracing persons engaged in the supply of board and lodging, and rendering personal services for which payment is usually made		924	4,344	5,268	2,211	2,606	944	141	5,902	11,170	143	246	10,569	212
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		273	2,340	2,613	1,149	1,449	331	64	2,993	5,606	210	717	4,538	141
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		29	533	562	518	1,010	424	86	2,038	2,600	47	183	2,319	51
V.	Primary Producers.—Embracing persons mainly engaged in the cultivation or acquisition of food products, and in obtaining other raw materials from natural sources		200	893	1,093	288	347	383	107	1,125	2,218	436	107	1,673	2
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		50	453	503	293	589	413	176	1,471	1,974	159	578	1,229	8
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			8	8	22	128	244	283	677	685	7	666	12
	Occupation not stated	10	1,285	231	1,526		76	43	50	169	1,695