New Zealand Gazette – 1897 – No. 24

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✨ Census Occupations Statistics



Census, 1896.—Occupations of the People.

Registrar-General’s Office, Wellington, 3rd March, 1897.

FURTHER results of the census of 12th April, 1896, as set out in the accompanying tables, relating to the occupations of the people, are published for general information. Details of the occupations belonging to each sub-order make too long a table for publication in the Gazette: they will be found in Part VIII. of the census volume now going through the press.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN, Registrar-General.

OCCUPATIONS.—CLASSES.

TABLE I.—Showing (exclusive of Maoris) the Occupations of the People as on 12th April, 1896, 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 42,448 86,605 40,364 34,264 96,857 57,789 12,503 585 371,415 41,211 84,887 40,370 34,452 83,392 39,123 8,253 257 331,945 703,360
I. SECTION A.—BREADWINNERS.
PROFESSIONAL.*—Embracing all persons, not otherwise classed, mainly engaged in the government and defence of the country, in maintaining law and order, and in satisfying the higher intellectual, moral, and social wants of its inhabitants .. 64 1,161 1,559 5,633 3,099 466 17 11,999 .. 20 1,098 1,788 3,064 1,119 142 16 7,247 19,246
II. DOMESTIC.—Embracing all persons engaged in the supply of board and lodging, and in rendering personal services for which payment is usually made .. 183 885 649 2,341 1,543 261 18 5,880 .. 987 7,581 6,652 5,769 1,717 186 38 22,930 28,810
III. COMMERCIAL.†—Embracing all persons engaged in pursuits connected with the purchase, sale, exchange, hire, custody, and security of money, land, and goods; and with the conveyance, distribution, and delivery of passengers, goods, and communications—
SUB-CLASS A.—Property and finance .. 10 348 492 1,590 1,117 467 7 4,031 .. .. 6 4 81 204 134 .. 429 4,460
SUB-CLASS B.—Trade .. 574 4,268 3,601 10,559 4,943 719 39 24,703 .. 62 740 721 1,199 566 75 1 3,364 28,067
SUB-CLASS C.—Storage .. 6 133 139 399 214 24 1 916 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 916
SUB-CLASS D.—Transport and communication .. 316 1,775 2,517 7,991 3,575 378 60 16,612 .. 5 43 107 119 48 3 .. 325 16,937
IV. INDUSTRIAL.‡—Embracing all persons, not otherwise classed, engaged in works or specialities connected with the construction, modification, or alteration of materials, so as to render them more available for the use of man .. 1,139 11,176 10,503 28,041 14,925 2,698 89 68,571 .. 280 4,838 3,958 3,443 623 94 7 13,243 81,814
V. PRIMARY PRODUCERS.§—Embracing all persons mainly engaged in the cultivation or acquisition of food products, and in obtaining other raw materials from natural sources .. 3,615 15,974 14,067 37,874 25,930 5,349 207 103,016 .. 379 622 328 680 897 206 2 3,114 106,130
VI. INDEFINITE.—Embracing all persons living upon incomes awarded for services rendered at some previous period, or upon incomes the source of which is not perfectly defined .. 44 258 282 1,193 1,200 1,133 24 4,134 .. 28 154 280 622 689 639 6 2,418 6,552
VII. SECTION B.—NON-BREADWINNERS.
DEPENDENTS.—Embracing wives, relatives, and others employed, if employed at all, in household or other pursuits for which payment is not usually made; also children and others being educated, and persons supported by public or private charity or detained in penal institutions .. 5,951 35,978 33,809 95,621 56,546 11,495 462 239,862 .. 1,761 15,082 13,838 14,977 5,863 1,479 70 53,070 292,932
42,448 80,654 4,351 329 1,010 1,082 815 40 130,729 41,211 83,126 25,264 20,443 68,147 33,093 6,572 150 278,006 408,735
Totals specified .. 42,448 86,605 40,329 34,138 96,631 57,628 12,310 370,591 41,211 84,887 40,346 34,281 83,124 38,956 8,051 220 331,076 701,667
Occupation not stated .. .. .. 35 126 226 161 193 824 .. .. 24 171 268 167 202 37 869 1,693
  • In the Professional Class are included persons returned as “Government officers”; but the figures given under this heading do not represent the full number employed by Government, the principle adopted having been to complete other groups where the scheme of classification required it, rather than to show the total number paid by Government. Thus, Postal and Telegraph officers are classified under “Transport of Passengers, Goods, and Communications,” in 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) would comprise some or all of the following: 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.

† Distributors.

‡ Modifiers.

§ Producers (agricultural, pastoral, mineral, and others).



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🏛️ Census 1896 Occupations of the People

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
3 March 1897
Census, Occupations, Statistics, Population, 1896
  • E. J. Von Dadelzen, Registrar-General