Summary of Shires and Road Districts, with Proportions.—Orders., TABLE XVII.—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 Shires and Road Districts 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 OF SHIRES AND ROAD DISTRICTS	345,847	171,844	174,003	202,429	87,903	114,526	143,418	83,941	59,477
		TOTAL OF SPECIFIED OCCUPATIONS	344,146	171,558	172,588	201,200	87,779	113,421	142,946	83,779	59,167
I.	1	Persons engaged in the general or local government, or the defence or protection of the country	811	16	795	792	16	776	19		19
I.	2	Persons engaged in the learned professions, or in literature, art, science (with their immediate subordinates)	3,052	352	2,700	1,898	119	1,779	1,154	233	921
II.	3	Persons engaged in the domestic offices or duties of wives, mothers, mistresses of families, children, relatives, (not otherwise returned)	195,661	145,747	49,914	68,962	68,768	194	126,699	76,979	49,720
II.	4	Persons engaged in entertaining and performing personal offices for man	11,808	4,713	7,095	3,219	446	2,773	8,589	4,267	4,322
III.	5	Persons who buy and sell, keep or lend money, houses, or goods of various kinds	3,618	420	3,198	3,246	386	2,860	372	34	338
III.	6	Persons engaged in the conveyance of men, animals, goods, and messages	3,479	563	2,916	3,444	559	2,885	35	4	31
IV.	7	Persons possessing, working, or cultivating land ; raising or dealing in animals ; or following pursuits subsidiary thereto	57,476	12,146	45,330	54,090	10,648	43,442	3,386	1,498	1,888
V.	8	Persons engaged in working and dealing in art and mechanic productions in which matters of various kinds are employed in combination	4,598	408	4,190	4,571	408	4,163	27		27
V.	9	Persons working and dealing in textile fabrics, dress, and in fibrous materials	3,520	728	2,792	1,767	328	1,439	1,753	400	1,353
V.	10	Persons working and dealing in food and drinks	3,775	771	3,004	3,419	702	2,717	356	69	287
V.	11	Persons working and dealing in animal and vegetable substances	5,642	828	4,814	5,626	825	4,801	16	3	13
V.	12	Persons working and dealing in minerals	39,266	2,836	36,430	39,250	2,832	36,418	16	4	12
VI.	13	Laborers and others (branch of labor undefined)	8,724	1,023	7,701	8,713	1,018	7,695	11	5	6
VI.	14	Persons of property and rank not returned under any office or occupation	228	3	225	173	2	171	55	1	54
VI.	15	Persons supported by the community and of no specified occupation	2,488	1,004	1,484	2,030	722	1,308	458	282	176
		Occupation not stated	1,701	286	1,415	1,229	124	1,105	472	162	310