General Summary of Victoria, with Proportions.—Orders., TABLE XV.—Showing the Number of Persons, Males, and Females at all Ages, and under and over Twenty Years of Age, of different Occupations, arranged in fifteen orders, living in Victoria on the 2nd April 1871, and the Proportions per Cent. of those of each order to the Total of the same column.

Class.	Order.	Occupations (arranged in fifteen orders).	Numbers.
			Persons.			Males.			Females.
			All Ages.	Under 20 Years.	Over 20 Years.	All Ages.	Under 20 Years.	Over 20 Years.	All Ages.	Under 20 Years.	Over 20 Years.
		TOTAL POPULATION	731,528	363,064	368,464	401,050	181,585	219,465	330,478	181,479	148,999
		TOTAL OF SPECIFIED OCCUPATIONS	727,067	362,389	364,678	398,341	181,312	217,029	328,726	181,077	147,649
I.	1	Persons engaged in the general or local government, or the defence or protection of the country	3,524	111	3,413	3,473	111	3,362	51		51
I.	2	Persons engaged in the learned professions, or in literature, art, science (with their immediate subordinates)	10,607	1,625	8,982	6,562	624	5,938	4,045	1,001	3,044
II.	3	Persons engaged in the domestic offices or duties of wives, mothers, mistresses of families, children, relatives, (not otherwise returned)	420,602	305,952	114,650	145,237	144,817	420	275,365	161,135	114,230
II.	4	Persons engaged in entertaining and performing personal offices for man	35,121	12,208	22,913	8,261	998	7,263	26,860	11,210	15,650
III.	5	Persons who buy and sell, keep or lend money, houses, or goods of various kinds	13,590	1,669	11,921	12,441	1,559	10,882	1,149	110	1,039
III.	6	Persons engaged in the conveyance of men, animals, goods, and messages	13,317	1,836	11,481	13,249	1,830	11,419	68	6	62
IV.	7	Persons possessing, working, or cultivating land ; raising or dealing in animals ; or following pursuits subsidiary thereto	64,941	13,169	51,772	61,277	11,592	49,685	3,664	1,577	2,087
V.	8	Persons engaged in working and dealing in art and mechanic productions in which matters of various kinds are employed in combination	22,316	3,361	18,955	21,898	3,289	18,609	418	72	346
V.	9	Persons working and dealing in textile fabrics, dress, and in fibrous materials	21,751	6,269	15,482	9,965	2,341	7,624	11,786	3,928	7,858
V.	10	Persons working and dealing in food and drinks	13,669	2,742	10,927	12,632	2,601	10,031	1,037	141	896
V.	11	Persons working and dealing in animal and vegetable substances	9,354	1,608	7,746	9,263	1,571	7,692	91	37	54
V.	12	Persons working and dealing in minerals	67,264	5,606	61,658	67,219	5,597	61,622	45	9	36
VI.	13	Laborers and others (branch of labor undefined)	18,727	2,042	16,685	18,640	2,009	16,631	87	33	54
VI.	14	Persons of property and rank not returned under any office or occupation	1,116	14	1,102	772	10	762	344	4	340
VI.	15	Persons supported by the community and of no specified occupation	11,168	4,177	6,991	7,452	2,363	5,089	3,716	1,814	1,902
		Occupation not stated	4,461	675	3,786	2,709	273	2,436	1,752	402	1,350