OCCUPATIONS, 1871 AND 1881.—ORDERS., TABLE LXXI.—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 Fifteen Orders ; also the Proportions per Cent. of those of each Order to the Total of the same column—continued.

Class.	Order.	Occupations (arranged in Fifteen Orders).	1881.
			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.
			Numbers.
		Total specified	854,434	431,124	423,310	445,653	215,250	230,403	408,781	215,874	192,907
I.	1	Persons engaged in the general or local government, or the defence or protection of the country	4,494	203	4,291	4,250	174	4,076	244	29	215
I.	2	Persons engaged in the learned professions, or in literature, art, science (with their immediate subordinates)	13,950	2,225	11,725	8,408	987	7,421	5,542	1,238	4,304
II.	3	Persons engaged in the domestic offices or duties of wives, mothers, mistresses of families, children, relatives (not otherwise returned)	465,612	348,973	116,639	165,957	165,147	810	299,655	183,826	115,829
II.	4	Persons engaged in entertaining and performing personal offices for man	38,709	12,626	26,083	8,666	1,429	7,237	30,043	11,197	18,846
III.	5	Persons who buy or sell, keep or lend, money or goods of various kinds	17,616	2,913	14,703	15,385	2,534	12,851	2,231	379	1,852
III.	6	Persons engaged in the conveyance of men, animals, goods, and messages	17,568	2,721	14,847	17,201	2,684	14,517	367	37	330
IV.	7	Persons possessing, working, or cultivating land ; raising or dealing in animals ; or following pursuits subsidiary thereto	124,202	27,053	97,149	81,719	17,678	64,041	42,483	9,375	33,108
V.	8	Persons engaged in working and dealing in art and mechanic productions in which matters of various kinds are employed in combination	28,065	5,103	22,962	27,347	4,944	22,403	718	159	559
V.	9	Persons working and dealing in textile fabrics, dress, and in fibrous materials	34,548	11,851	22,697	13,571	3,635	9,936	20,977	8,216	12,761
V.	10	Persons working and dealing in food and drinks	15,277	3,023	12,254	13,522	2,884	10,638	1,755	139	1,616
V.	11	Persons working and dealing in animal and vegetable substances	8,272	1,700	6,572	8,059	1,598	6,461	213	102	111
V.	12	Persons working and dealing in minerals	48,505	6,303	42,202	48,455	6,278	42,177	50	25	25
VI.	13	Labourers and others (branch of labour undefined)	25,736	4,255	21,481	25,593	4,173	21,420	143	82	61
VI.	14	Persons of property and rank not returned under any office or occupation	1,979	53	1,926	1,239	18	1,221	740	35	705
VI.	15	Persons supported by the community and of no specified occupation	9,901	2,122	7,779	6,281	1,087	5,194	3,620	1,035	2,585
			Proportions per Cent.
		Total	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000	100.000
I.	1	Persons engaged in the general or local government, or the defence or protection of the country	0.526	0.047	1.014	0.953	0.081	1.769	0.059	0.013	0.112
I.	2	Persons engaged in the learned professions, or in literature, art, science (with their immediate subordinates)	1.633	0.516	2.770	1.887	0.458	3.221	1.356	0.574	2.231
II.	3	Persons engaged in the domestic offices or duties of wives, mothers, mistresses of families, children, relatives (not otherwise returned)	54.494	80.945	27.554	37.239	76.723	0.352	73.305	85.155	60.044
II.	4	Persons engaged in entertaining and performing personal offices for man	4.530	2.929	6.162	1.945	0.664	3.141	7.350	5.187	9.769
III.	5	Persons who buy or sell, keep or lend, money or goods of various kinds	2.062	0.676	3.473	3.452	1.177	5.577	0.545	0.175	0.960
III.	6	Persons engaged in the conveyance of men, animals, goods, and messages	2.056	0.631	3.507	3.860	1.247	6.301	0.090	0.017	171
IV.	7	Persons possessing, working, or cultivating land ; raising or dealing in animals ; or following pursuits subsidiary thereto	14.536	6.275	22.950	18.337	8.213	27.795	10.393	4.343	17.163
V.	8	Persons engaged in working and dealing in art and mechanic productions in which matters of various kinds are employed in combination	3.285	1.184	5.424	6.137	2.297	9.723	0.176	0.074	0.290
V.	9	Persons working and dealing in textile fabrics, dress, and in fibrous materials	4.043	2.749	5.362	3.045	1.689	4.313	5.132	3.806	6.615
V.	10	Persons working and dealing in food and drinks	1.788	0.701	2.895	3.034	1.340	4.617	0.429	0.64	0.838
V.	11	Persons working and dealing in animal and vegetable substances	0.968	0.394	1.553	1.808	0.742	2.804	0.52	0.47	0.57
V.	12	Persons working and dealing in minerals	5.677	1.462	9.969	10.873	2.917	18.306	0.012	0.012	0.013
VI.	13	Labourers and others (branch of labour undefined)	3.012	0.987	5.074	5.743	1.939	9.297	0.035	0.038	0.032
VI.	14	Persons of property and rank not returned under any office or occupation	0.231	0.012	0.455	0.278	0.008	0.530	0.181	0.016	0.365
VI.	15	Persons supported by the community and of no specified occupation	1.159	0.492	1.838	1.409	0.505	2.254	0.885	0.479	1.340