Numbers and Proportions, 1846-1871., TABLE VI.—Showing, exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines, the Number of Persons of different Occupations, classed under ten heads, living in Victoria at the various Census Periods from 1846 to 1871, both inclusive, and the Proportion per Cent. of those under each head to the Total Population at the same Census Periods.

Occupations (classified under ten heads.)	Persons of both Sexes.
	1846.		1851.		1854.		1857.		1861.		1871.
	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.
1. Commerce, trade, and manufacture	3,347	10.18	8,435	10.91	52,912	22.58	69,258	18.06	84,941	16.53	114,263	16.04
2. Gold-mining					34,013	14.51	62,428	16.27	61,955	12.06	39,754	5.58
3. Agriculture, farming, and pastoral pursuits	7,502	22.82	11,641	15.05	14,377	6.13	38,625	10.07	54,268	10.56	65,056	9.14
4. Laborers (branch of labor undefined)	1,917	5.83	6,026	7.79	8,904	3.80	6,759	1.76	8,098	1.58	15,181	2.13
5. Domestic servants	2,274	6.92	4,610	5.96	10,447	4.46	19,739	5.15	23,573	4.59	24,851	3.49
6. Learned professions, fine arts, literature, &c.	386	1.17	1,292	1.67	2,709	1.16	5,041	1.31	7,285	1.42	11,918	1.67
7. Maintained out of the public revenue	107	0.32	146	0.19	6,968	2.97	7,061	1.84	8,143	1.56	14,232	2.00
8. Miscellaneous pursuits	17,346	52.76	45,195	58.43	1,858	0.79	748	0.20	977	0.19	382	0.05
9. Independent means					1,943	0.83	1,175	0.31	1,362	0.27	1,859	0.26
10. Residue of population					100,230	42.77	172,740	45.03	263,294	51.24	424,767	59.64
Total	32,879	100.00	77,345	100.00	234,361	100.00	383,574	100.00	513,896	100.00	712,263	100.00