New Zealand Gazette – 1892 – No. 50

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✨ Census Occupations Statistics



Census, 1891.—Occupations of the People.

FURTHER results of the Census of the 5th April, 1891, relating to the occupations of the people, are published for general information, arranged in three tables, showing the classes, orders, and sub-orders.

Registrar-General’s Office, Wellington, 10th June, 1892.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Deputy Registrar-General.

TABLE I.—Showing the Occupations of the Population at different Ages, Males and Females (exclusive of Maoris), on the 5th April, 1891, arranged in Seven Classes.

Class. Occupations (arranged in Seven Classes). Males. Females. Total both Sexes.
Under 5 Years. 5 and under 15 Years. 15 and under 20 Years. 20 and under 25 Years. 25 and under 45 Years. 45 and under 65 Years. 65 Years and upwards. Unspecified. Total Males. Under 5 Years. 5 and under 15 Years. 15 and under 20 Years. 20 and under 25 Years. 25 and under 45 Years. 45 and under 65 Years. 65 Years and upwards. Unspecified. Total Females.
Total Population 42,259 84,249 32,579 28,337 83,993 52,428 8,336 696 332,877 40,945 82,915 32,658 29,805 68,808 32,372 6,006 272 293,781 626,658
I. Professional* .. .. 90 914 1,310 4,831 2,584 332 10,082 .. 38 964 1,500 2,161 966 102 8 5,739 15,821
II. Domestic .. .. 289 698 579 2,211 1,565 186 5,537 .. 1,402 6,363 5,362 4,599 1,454 185 26 19,391 24,928
III. Commercial .. .. 1,203 5,327 5,212 19,265 8,235 1,044 40,330 .. 86 455 532 987 646 158 2 2,866 43,196
IV. Industrial .. .. 1,597 10,272 9,444 21,964 13,787 1,838 59,196 .. 449 4,397 3,385 2,410 609 73 2 11,325 70,521
V. Agricultural, Pastoral, Mineral, and other Primary Producers .. .. 3,867 12,105 11,106 33,326 23,915 3,380 87,860 .. 347 544 325 646 696 128 .. 2,686 90,546
VI. Indefinite .. .. 47 262 392 1,284 1,329 931 4,341 .. 11 61 532 1,101 929 737 39 3,410 7,751
VII. Dependents .. .. 42,259 77,156 3,001 294 1,112 1,013 625 71 125,531 40,945 80,582 19,874 18,169 56,904 27,072 4,623 195

*In the Professional Class are included persons classed as “Officers of Government,” but the numbers given under this heading do not represent the whole number employed by the Government, the principle adopted having been to complete the other groups where the scheme of classification required it, rather than to show completely all persons paid by Government. Thus, Postal and Telegraph officers are classified in the group “Transport of Passengers, Goods, and Communications,” belonging to the Class III. Railway employés are similarly dealt with. The full statement of persons paid by Government but not included in Order I. (see next table) is as follows: Persons connected with defence, law-courts, penal establishments and police, charitable or benevolent institutions, hospitals and lunatic asylums, museums, education, life insurance, railways, harbours, lighthouses, post and telegraph and mines, also civil engineers, electricians, surveyors and assistants, architects and draughtsmen, printers and binders in the Government Printing Office, and artisans in Government Railway workshops.



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🎓 Census 1891 Occupations of the People

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
10 June 1892
Census, Occupations, Population, Statistics, 1891
  • E. J. von Dadelzen, Deputy Registrar-General