COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Occupations of Persons, Males, and Females, in the Colony of Victoria, at the Censuses of 1861 and 1871 respectively, according to the system of classification adopted at the former period ; also the Numerical and Centesimal Increase or Decrease of those of each group of occupations between the periods named, and the Proportion per cent. of those of each group to the Total Population—continued.
| OCCUPATIONS. |
POPULATION. |
INCREASE OR DECREASE. |
PROPORTION PER CENT. OF THE POPULATION. |
| 1861. |
1871. |
NUMERICAL. |
CENTESIMAL. |
1861. |
1871. |
| Persons. |
Males. |
Females. |
Persons. |
Males. |
Females. |
Persons. |
Males. |
Females. |
Persons. |
Males. |
Females. |
Persons. |
Males. |
Females. |
Persons. |
Males. |
Females. |
| 2. Shop and storekeepers, warehousemen, dealers, hawkers, &c. |
7,850 |
6,411 |
1,439 |
9,747 |
8,446 |
1,301 |
1,897 |
2,035 |
-138 |
24.17 |
31.74 |
-9.59 |
1.461 |
1.966 |
0.682 |
1.339 |
2.116 |
0.396 |
| 3. Bankers, brokers, accountants, auctioneers, commission agents, &c. |
1,901 |
1,891 |
10 |
3,439 |
3,380 |
59 |
1,538 |
1,489 |
49 |
80.90 |
78.74 |
490.00 |
0.354 |
0.580 |
0.005 |
0.472 |
0.847 |
0.018 |
| 4. Commercial clerks, assistants in shops, storemen, salesmen, &c. |
5,070 |
4,743 |
327 |
4,404 |
4,234 |
170 |
-666 |
-509 |
-157 |
-13.14 |
-10.73 |
-48.01 |
0.944 |
1.454 |
0.155 |
0.605 |
1.061 |
0.052 |
| CLASS V.—PERSONAL OFFICES.—Persons engaged in entertaining, clothing, and performing personal offices for man : |
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| 1. Inn and lodging-house keepers, barmen, barmaids, &c. |
4,632 |
3,109 |
1,523 |
9,863 |
5,545 |
4,318 |
5,231 |
2,436 |
2,795 |
112.93 |
78.35 |
183.52 |
0.862 |
0.953 |
0.721 |
1.355 |
1.389 |
1.313 |
| 2. Tailors, shoemakers, dressmakers, outfitters, hatters, &c. |
8,115 |
4,144 |
3,971 |
17,013 |
6,960 |
10,053 |
8,898 |
2,816 |
6,082 |
109.65 |
67.95 |
153.16 |
1.510 |
1.271 |
1.881 |
2.337 |
1.744 |
3.056 |
| 3. Domestic servants (general), cooks, coachmen (private servants), grooms (private servants), &c. |
23,695 |
4,899 |
18,796 |
25,041 |
2,336 |
22,705 |
1,346 |
-2,563 |
3,909 |
5.68 |
-52.32 |
20.80 |
4.410 |
1.502 |
8.904 |
3.440 |
0.585 |
6.903 |
| CLASS VI.—MANUFACTURING.—Persons engaged in art and mechanical productions, and in working and dealing in mineral, vegetable, and animal matters : |
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| 1. Contractors, special branch in which they work being undefined |
468 |
467 |
1 |
858 |
857 |
1 |
390 |
390 |
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83.33 |
83.51 |
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0.087 |
0.143 |
0.000 |
0.118 |
0.214 |
0.000 |
| 2. Masons, bricklayers, slaters, hodmen, plasterers, &c. |
4,193 |
4,193 |
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3,761 |
3,761 |
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-432 |
-432 |
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-10.30 |
-10.30 |
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0.780 |
1.286 |
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0.517 |
0.942 |
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| 3. Quarrymen, brickmakers, road and railway laborers, &c. |
8,047 |
8,040 |
7 |
7,011 |
7,009 |
2 |
-1,036 |
-1,031 |
-5 |
-12.87 |
-12.82 |
-71.43 |
1.498 |
2.465 |
0.003 |
0.963 |
1.756 |
0.001 |
| 4. Blacksmiths, whitesmiths, founders, mechanical engineers, &c. |
5,647 |
5,618 |
29 |
8,635 |
8,624 |
11 |
2,988 |
3,006 |
-18 |
52.91 |
53.51 |
-62.07 |
1.051 |
1.722 |
0.014 |
1.186 |
2.161 |
0.003 |
| 5. Builders, carpenters, building surveyors, timber merchants, sawyers, &c. |
8,508 |
8,489 |
19 |
10,397 |
10,390 |
7 |
1,889 |
1,901 |
-12 |
22.20 |
22.39 |
-63.16 |
1.584 |
2.602 |
0.009 |
1.428 |
2.603 |
0.002 |
| 6. Cabinet-makers, furniture dealers, carvers and gilders, turners, &c. |
1,083 |
1,020 |
63 |
2,007 |
1,924 |
83 |
924 |
904 |
20 |
85.32 |
88.63 |
31.75 |
0.202 |
0.313 |
0.030 |
0.276 |
0.482 |
0.025 |
| 7. Coach and cart makers, wheelwrights, implement makers, &c. |
1,754 |
1,748 |
6 |
2,184 |
2,180 |
4 |
430 |
432 |
-2 |
24.52 |
24.71 |
-33.33 |
0.326 |
0.536 |
0.003 |
0.300 |
0.546 |
0.100 |
| 8. Other artisans and mechanics, printers, bookbinders, coopers, &c. |
3,140 |
3,060 |
80 |
5,396 |
5,124 |
272 |
2,256 |
2,064 |
192 |
71.84 |
67.45 |
240.00 |
0.584 |
0.938 |
0.043 |
0.741 |
1.284 |
0.083 |
| 9. Tanners, fellmongers, soap-boilers, wool-sorters, charcoal-burners, &c. |
940 |
921 |
19 |
1,817 |
1,795 |
22 |
877 |
874 |
3 |
93.30 |
94.90 |
15.79 |
0.175 |
0.282 |
0.009 |
0.250 |
0.449 |
0.007 |
| CLASS VII.—GOLD MINING.—Persons engaged in digging for, washing out, and extracting gold : |
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| 1. Miners puddling |
5,848 |
5,839 |
9 |
1,357 |
1,355 |
2 |
-4,491 |
-4,484 |
-7 |
-76.79 |
-76.79 |
-77.78 |
1.089 |
1.791 |
0.004 |
0.186 |
0.340 |
0.001 |
| 2. Miners sluicing |
4,433 |
4,432 |
1 |
4,036 |
4,036 |
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-397 |
-396 |
-1 |
-8.96 |
8.94 |
-100.00 |
0.825 |
1.359 |
0.000 |
0.554 |
1.011 |
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| 3. Miners quartz crushing |
7,713 |
7,700 |
13 |
8,818 |
8,818 |
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1,105 |
1,118 |
-13 |
14.33 |
14.52 |
-100.00 |
1.436 |
2.361 |
0.006 |
1.211 |
2.210 |
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| 4. Miners quartz crushing, amalgamating, &c. |
1,133 |
1,128 |
5 |
592 |
590 |
2 |
-541 |
-538 |
-3 |
-47.75 |
-47.70 |
-60.00 |
0.211 |
0.346 |
0.002 |
0.081 |
0.148 |
0.001 |
| 5. Miners alluvial sinking |
42,559 |
42,489 |
70 |
21,529 |
21,525 |
4 |
-21,030 |
-20,964 |
-66 |
-49.42 |
-49.34 |
-94.29 |
7.922 |
13.029 |
0.033 |
2.957 |
5.394 |
0.001 |
| 6. Miners (branch of gold mining undefined), diggers, &c. |
20,204 |
20,159 |
45 |
16,093 |
16,087 |
6 |
-4,111 |
-4,072 |
-39 |
-20.35 |
-20.20 |
-86.67 |
3.761 |
6.182 |
0.021 |
2.211 |
4.031 |
0.002 |
| 7. Mining surveyors, officers of mining companies, members of mining boards (not otherwise returned) |
202 |
202 |
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326 |
324 |
2 |
124 |
122 |
2 |
61.38 |
60.39 |
Infinite
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0.038 |
0.062 |
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0.045 |
0.081 |
0.000 |
| 8. Engineers, engine-drivers and stokers to mining engines, &c. |
372 |
372 |
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193 |
193 |
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-179 |
-179 |
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-48.12 |
-48.12 |
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0.069 |
0.114 |
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0.027 |
0.048 |
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