OCCUPATIONS, 1871 AND 1881.—CLASSES., TABLE LXX.—Showing, at the last Two Censuses, the Number of Persons, Males, and Females of All Ages, under and over Twenty Years of Age of different Occupations, arranged in Six Classes ; also the Proportions per Cent. of those of each class to the total of the same column.

Class.	Occupations (arranged in Six Classes).	1871.									1881.
		Persons.			Males.			Females.			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.	All Ages.	Under 20 Years.	Over 20 Years.	All Ages.	Under 20 Years.	Over 20 Years.	All Ages.	Under 20 Years.	Over 20 Years.
		Numbers.
	Total	731,528	363,064	368,464	401,050	181,585	219,465	330,478	181,479	148,999	862,346	432,398	429,948	452,083	216,464	235,619	410,263	215,934	194,329
	Total specified	727,067	362,389	364,678	398,341	181,312	217,029	328,726	181,077	147,649	854,434	431,124	423,310	445,653	215,250	230,403	408,781	215,874	192,907
I.	Professional	14,131	1,736	12,395	10,035	735	9,300	4,096	1,001	3,095	18,444	2,428	16,016	12,658	1,161	11,497	5,786	1,267	4,519
II.	Domestic	434,349	318,075	116,274	153,751	145,821	7,930	280,598	172,254	108,344	504,321	361,599	142,722	174,623	166,576	8,047	329,698	195,023	134,675
III.	Commercial	27,079	3,592	23,487	25,808	3,456	22,352	1,271	136	1,135	35,184	5,634	29,550	32,586	5,218	27,368	2,598	416	2,182
IV.	Agricultural and pastoral	85,841	13,269	72,572	61,277	11,592	49,685	24,564	1,677	22,887	124,202	27,053	97,149	81,719	17,678	64,041	42,483	9,375	33,108
V.	Industrial	136,012	19,618	116,394	121,834	15,431	106,403	14,178	4,187	9,991	134,667	27,980	106,687	110,954	19,339	91,615	23,713	8,641	15,072
VI.	Indefinite and non-productive	29,655	6,099	23,556	25,636	4,277	21,359	4,019	1,822	2,197	37,616	6,430	31,186	33,113	5,278	27,835	4,503	1,152	3,351
	Occupation not stated	4,461	675	3,786	2,709	273	2,436	1,752	402	1,350	7,912	1,274	6,638	6,430	1,214	5,216	1,482	60	1,422
		Proportions per Cent.
	Total	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000
I.	Professional	1.944	0.479	3.399	2.519	0.405	4.285	1.246	0.553	2.096	2.159	0.563	3.784	2.840	0.539	4.990	1.415	0.587	2.343
II.	Domestic	59.740	87.772	31.884	38.598	80.425	3.654	85.359	95.128	73.379	59.024	83.874	33.716	39.184	77.387	3.493	80.655	90.342	69.813
III.	Commercial	3.724	0.991	6.441	6.479	1.906	10.299	0.387	0.075	0.769	4.118	1.307	6.980	7.312	2.424	11.878	0.635	0.192	1.131
IV.	Agricultural and pastoral	11.807	3.661	19.900	15.383	6.394	22.893	7.472	0.926	15.501	14.536	6.275	22.950	18.337	8.213	27.795	10.393	4.343	17.163
V.	Industrial	18.707	5.414	31.917	30.585	8.511	49.028	4.313	2.312	6.767	15.761	6.490	25.203	24.897	8.985	39.763	5.801	4.003	7.813
VI.	Indefinite and non-productive	4.078	1.683	6.459	6.436	2.359	9.841	1.223	1.006	1.488	4.402	1.491	7.367	7.430	2.452	12.081	1.101	0.533	1.737