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