The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-14
TWO-FIFTHs AT WORK.
States, just Issued, show Farmers
Mt the Top of the List.

States, just Issued, show Farmers
Mt the Top of the List.
From the Washington Star.
The director of the census has made
| public a report on occupations of citi-
zens of the United States, as collected
by $4,000 enumerators of the Census
Bureau. The report was prepared by
| Mr.. William c. Hunt, chief statistician
! for population. assisted by DR.. Joseph
A. Hill and Mr.. William Rossiter of
the division of publications. The pub
LEGATION is profusely illustrated with
| maps and diagrams, prepared in the
geographical division under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Charles S. Sloane, acting
geographer.
The report shows that over 80 per
| cent. of the persons employed in gain
full occupations in the United States
are employed in agricultural pursuits.
| In collecting statistics of occupations
| only persons ten years of age and over
were considered.
The congratulations and comparisons
which follow are restricted to the re-
turns for Continental United States,
which consists of that part of the
United States on the Continent of
North America south of the Canadian
| boundary, and therefore excludes Alas
ka, Hawaii and the military and naval
stations abroad
In Continental United States the to-
tai number of persons engaged in gain
| full occupations in 1900 was 20, 073,2
| which was one-half, 50.2 per cent. OF
| the population ten years of age and
| over, and nearly two-fifths, 1873 per
| cent. of the entire population. OF this
| number, 23,753,S3 were males and 81
| 319 397 were females.
The males gainfully employed con-
| stituted so per cent, or four-fifths, OF
| the male population ten years of age
and over, and q per cent, or more
| than three-fifths of the total male pop
ulation. The females gainfully en-
ployed constituted 1873 per cent. of
| the female population ten years of
age and over and 1913 per cent. of the
total female population.
In the classification for the twelfth
| census there was 1903 specified occu-
pations, or 140 occupations or groups.
| These were classified under five main
heads, showing as follows, with the
per centage of the population employ
ed therein:
Thirty-nine and six-tenths per cent.
were engaged in agricultural pursuits,
24.3 per cent. in manufacturing and
mechanical pursuits, 1913 per cent. In
trade and transportation, 14.7 per cent.
IN DOMESTIC dIlu DbISOIldl btINlCCt dIlu
35 per cent. in professional service.
Agricultural pursuits constitute,
therefore, the most important class of
occupations for this sex. More than
one-half of the males in this main
class are farmers, planters, and over
seers and about two-fifths are agri-
cultural laborers.
More than seven-tenths of the males
classified under domestic and personal
service are laborers mot specified).
Under trade and transportation the
leading occupation groups for males
are those Of retail merchants and deal
ers, steam railroad employees, clerks
and copyists, draymen, hackmen and
transfers, and statesmen. The num-
Der Of males in these five groups make
up about two-thirds OF the total num-
Der in this main class.
The males engaged in manufacturing
and mechanical pursuits are widely
distributed in a number of occupation
groups, of which the two largest are
those of mixers and quarrymen, and
carpenters and joiners. these two in
GLIDING about one-fifth of the total
number of males in this class.
In the North Atlantic division the
number of males engaged in manufac-
turing and mechanical pursuits is con-
siderably larger than the number en-
gagged In any other main class of oc-
equations, constituting S0.1 per cent,
or nearly two-ffths Of the total num-
Der Of male workers In this division.
In each Of the other geographic d.
visions, agricultural pursuits consti-
tute the most important branch of oc-
equations, being $40 per cent, or two
hfths of all in the South Atlantic d.
vision; al per cent, or two-fifths
of all In the north central division, and
66.3 per cent, or two-thirds of all in
the south central division.
In the Western division the percen-