New Zealand Gazette – 1902 – No. 58

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✨ Census Occupational Statistics



Census, 1901.—Occupations of the People.

Registrar-General’s Office, Wellington, 8th July, 1902.

FURTHER results of the census taken for the 31st March, 1901, 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.

Summaries of all particulars obtained at the recent enumeration have now been gazetted.

E. J. von DADELSZEN, Registrar-General.

OCCUPATIONS.—CLASSES.

TABLE I.—Showing (exclusive of Maoris) the Occupations of the People as on the 31st March, 1901, arranged in Eight Classes.

Class. Occupations (arranged in Eight Classes). Males. Females. Totals 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.
I. SECTION A.—BREADWINNERS.
PROFESSIONAL.*—Embracing all persons, not otherwise classed, mainly engaged in the government and defence of the country, and in satisfying the moral, intellectual, and social wants of its inhabitants .. 100 1,266 2,368 6,705 3,394 696 20 14,549 .. 20 1,132 2,236 4,042 1,302 221 7 8,960 23,509
II. DOMESTIC.—Embracing all persons engaged in the supply of board and lodging, and in rendering personal services for which remuneration is usually paid .. 149 694 859 2,827 1,629 377 7 6,542 .. 951 8,015 8,495 7,877 2,183 303 28 27,852 34,394
III. COMMERCIAL.—Embracing all persons directly connected with the hire, sale, transfer, distribution, storage, and security of property and materials—
SUB-CLASS A.—Property and finance .. 44 564 517 1,920 1,313 684 4 5,046 .. .. 15 20 114 259 177 .. 585 5,631
SUB-CLASS B.—Trade .. 1,009 4,741 4,314 12,054 5,404 950 28 28,500 .. 64 1,253 1,339 1,543 635 104 .. 4,938 33,438
SUB-CLASS C.—Storage .. 4 132 171 330 207 18 1 863 .. .. 1 2 2 .. .. .. 5 868
IV. TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION.—Embracing all persons engaged in the transport of persons or goods, or in effecting communication .. 485 2,482 3,215 10,099 4,325 625 34 21,265 .. 3 57 125 233 55 11 1 485 21,750
V. INDUSTRIAL.—Embracing all persons, not otherwise classed, who are principally engaged in various works of utility, or in specialities connected with the manufacture, construction, modification, or alteration of materials, so as to render them more available for the various uses of man, but excluding, as far as possible, all who are mainly or solely engaged in the service of commercial interchange .. 1,237 13,362 14,209 34,812 17,182 3,996 76 84,874 .. 395 5,996 4,921 4,281 606 95 16 16,310 101,184
VI. AGRICULTURAL, PASTORAL, MINERAL, AND OTHER PRIMARY PRODUCERS.—Embracing all persons mainly engaged in the cultivation or acquisition of food products, and in obtaining other raw materials from natural sources .. 3,464 15,141 15,055 40,646 25,532 8,014 155 108,007 .. 524 812 422 798 1,082 273 3 3,914 111,921
VII. INDEFINITE.—Embracing all persons who derive incomes from services rendered, but the direction of which services cannot be exactly determined .. 20 64 234 648 1,001 2,931 15 4,913 3 5 41 206 538 677 1,145 7 2,622 7,535

*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 and Communication,” in Class IV. Railway employees are similarly dealt with. The full statement of persons paid by Government but not included in Order I would comprise some or all of the following: Persons connected with 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 1901 Occupational Data Summary

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
8 July 1902
Census, Occupations, Statistics, Population, Employment, Demography
  • E. J. von Dadelzen, Registrar-General