Numbers and Proportions—Classes and Orders., TABLE II.—Number of Persons, Males and Females, at all Ages, and under and of and over Twenty years of Age, of different Occupations, arranged in Fifteen Orders, living in Tasmania on the 3rd April, 1881, and the Proportions per cent. of those of each Order to the Total of specified Occupations in the same column.

Class.	Order.	Occupations in Classes and Orders.	Numbers.
			Persons.			Males.			Females.
			All Ages.	Under 20.	20 and over.	All Ages.	Under 20.	20 and over.	All Ages.	Under 20.	20 and over.
		Total Population	115,705	57,459	58,246	61,162	29,098	32,064	54,543	28,381	26,183
		Total of specified Occupations	114,722	57,268	57,454	60,423	28,963	31,520	54,230	28,305	25,204
I.	1	Persons engaged in the General or Local Government, or the defence or production of the Country	661	37	624	613	32	581	48	5	43
I.	2	Persons engaged in the learned professions, or in literature, art, science, with their immediate subordinates	1,659	242	1,417	916	120	796	743	122	621
II.	3	Persons engaged in the domestic office or duties of wives, mothers, mistresses of families, children, relatives (not otherwise described)	63,685	44,548	19,137	20,444	20,355	89	43,241	24,193	19,048
II.	4	Persons engaged in entertaining and performing personal offices for man	5,277	1,918	3,329	1,157	290	907	4,120	1,668	2,422
III.	5	Persons who buy and sell, keep or lend, money, houses, or goods of various kinds	1,555	234	1,321	1,310	213	1,097	245	21	224
III.	6	Persons engaged in the conveyance of men, animals, goods, or messages	2,329	419	1,910	2,265	414	1,871	44	5	30
IV.	7	Persons possessing, working or cultivating land ; raising or dealing in animals ; or following pursuits subsidiary thereto	19,403	5,949	13,459	16,118	4,342	11,776	3,290	1,607	1,583
V.	8	Persons engaged in working and dealing in art and mechanic productions in which matters of various kinds are employed in combination	3,099	647	2,452	3,031	641	2,300	68	6	62
V.	9	Persons working and dealing in textile fabrics, dress, and in fibrous materials	3,335	926	2,409	1,722	428	1,294	1,513	498	1,115
V.	10	Persons working and dealing in food and drinks	1,636	416	1,221	1,400	377	1,063	176	33	138
V.	11	Persons working and dealing in animal and vegetable substances	1,550	313	1,237	1,680	307	1,223	20	6	14
V.	12	Persons working and dealing in minerals	4,364	897	4,167	4,859	636	4,163	5	1	4
VI.	13	Labourers and others (branch of labour undefined)	4,484	740	3,744	4,413	739	[Illegible]	71	7	64
VI.	14	Persons of property and rank not returned under any office or occupation	559	4	555	285		285	274	4	270
VI.	15	Persons supported by the community and of no specified occupation*	621	149	472	840	65	235	231	94	187
		Occupation not stated	983	191	792	679	135	544	304	66	348