TABLE LXVII.—Showing (exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines) the Numbers and Proportions per Cent. of Persons of different Occupations, classed under Ten Heads, Living in Victoria at the last Seven Censuses.

Occupations (classified under Ten Heads).	Persons of both Sexes.
	1846.		1851.		1854.		1857.		1861.		1871.		1881.
	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.	Numbers.	Proportions per Cent.
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	849,438	100.00
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	139,914	16.47
2. Gold mining					34,013	14.51	62,428	16.27	61,955	12.06	39,754	5.58	29,424	3.46
3. Agricultural 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	123,096	14.49
4. Labourers (branch of labour 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	22,454	2.64
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	28,517	3.36
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	16,300	1.92
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	13,326	1.57
8. Miscellaneous pursuits	17,346	52.76	45,195	58.43	1,858	0.79	748	0.20	977	0.19	382	0.05	459	0.05
9. Independent means					1,943	0.83	1,175	0.31	1,362	0.27	1,859	0.26	3,521	0.42
10. Residue of population					100,230	42.77	172,740	45.03	263,294	51.24	424,767	59.64	472,427	55.62