The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-20
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CAROLINA
SUMMARY: 1910.

cording to the Report on Occupations re
Gently issued by Director William
Harris. of the Bureau of the Census
Department of Commerce, there were
947 ,839 persons 10 years of age and oyel
in North Carolina engaged in gainful Oc-
equations in 1910 The gainful workers
thus formed 43 per cent of the total pop
ulation of the State (2,206, 2S7) and 81
per cent of the population 10 years OF
age and over Il SIS, $3.50. In 1900 the
ut, 742 gainful workers Of the State
formed 1878 per cent of the total popula
ton and So. 2 per cent of the population
E10 years of age and over.
The male gainful workers in 1910 num-
bered ga, $40, or 1914 per cant OF all
males 10 years of age and over, as com.
THE female gainful ( workers in 1910
numbered 272 800, or 342 per cent OF
all females 10 years of age and over, as
compared with 100, 161, or pa per cent.
in 1900.
Distribution Of Workers.
i The 947,S39 gainful workers in 1910
were distributed amongthe main branch
cs of occupations as follows: Agricul-
tire, forestry, and animal husbandary,
1912 Zoo, or "a. e per cent; extraction of
minerals, 2 1902, or or per. cent; manu-
ffacturing and mechanical industries, 1853,
F412, or l6.7A per cent; transportation,
% COL, or 81 per cent; trade 39,O28, or
+, Al per cent; professional service, 20,
1876. or 3. per cent; and clerical occu-
pations, 1859 or IL per cent.
Sex Of Workers.
OF the gainful workers in 1910, 81, $40
or 71.2 pei. cent, were males and 272,
/ T.
| culture, forestry, and animal husbandry.
per cent, and the females, 162 ,9O5, or
26. per cent Practically all-2 ,0875 or
80. 3 per cent---of the persons engaged
in the extraction of minerals were males.
/ In manufacturing and mechanical indus
tries >123 ,454, or II g per cent. of workers
were males and 81 1853, or 22.1 per cent,
| females: Males constituted 81 7per cent
of the ~, 6O1 persons engaged in trans
portation, 91.7 per cent of the 39,O28
persons engaged in trade, and 94.3 per
cent of the 1889 persons engaged in
public service. In professional service
10 ,72S, or 81 8 per sent, of the workers
were males and I, 608, or A.? per cent,
females large proportion of the fe-
males being school teachers. Domestic
and personal service was the onlyf large
field of occupations in which the fe-
males outnumbered the males. Here
females numbered 5S, 667, or SO per cent,
and males only II ,009, or IL per cent. of
clerical occu oations, 7.941, or 75.1 per
cent, were males and 1858, or 24,9 per
cent, females X
S =. Color Or Race Of Workers
Of the "a, $40 gainfulIy occupied males
in 1910, 457, 100 were native whites of
native parentage,- 2,5O2 native whites of
foreign or mixed parenrage, 1929 foreign
born whites, 2O9,573 negroes, and 2,455
other co!ored. . The proportion which
the gainfully occupied males formed of
all the males 10 years of age and over
in each principal class of the population |
was: For native whites or native paren-
tage, S5.4 per cent; for native whites of /
foreign or mixed parentaee, 1914 per
cent; for foreign-born whites, BIS per
cent: and for negroes 90. D per cent kg
Of the 72,990 gainfuiiy occupied fes T
males in 1910, 129, 457 were native whites
of native parentage, sol native whites of |
foreign or mixed parentage,, 362 foreign
born whites al 81 negroes, and l.2i9I
other colored. The proportion which
the gainfully occupied females formed of
all the females 10 years of age and over
in each principle class of the population
was: For native whites of native paEeh-
tage, 24.2 per cent; for native whites of |
foreign or mixed parentage, lao per
cent for foreign-boIn whites, Is per
cent; and for negroes, 55.7 per cent. :
Age OfrWorkcrs s: Is
Gainfully occupied males in 1910 were T
distributed according 10 age. periods as
fellows: 10 to 10 years, So, 457; ALTO, IS
years, 49, 1872; IL to 20 years, Toe, 1855; FL
to "A years and the unknown, 5000;
and As years and over, 164, 305. The
which the gainfully occupied
males formed all OF males in each. age
period was: For these 10 to - years Of
age, 49, pc cent;for those IA to IS years
of age; "A per cent; for these Tito 20
years of age, 500 per cent; for tsose .2l
to A years of age, 81 per cent---that. i,
all but men in every 100 had gainfui
occupations; and for those As wears of
age and over, 92.2 per cent. %<'>,"1
Fhe gainful occupied females in 1910
were distributed according to age periods. :,
as follows. 10 to 10 years, 80, S22; ii to T.
IS years, 22,161; IL to 20 years, Sc, AL; 21
to A years and age unknown, si2O 764:
and IS years and over, AZ, S02. The pro-
portion which the gainfully occupied Fl
females formed of all females in each
age period was; For those 10 to Is years
OF age, ~ per cent; for those IA to IS
years of age, AL per cent: for those 16
20 years of age, 46.z per cent; for those FL K
to a. years Of age, 34.4 per cent; and for
those As years of age and over, 25I4 per
cent.
Number Of Children At Work
In North Carolina in 1910 there were
81 $40 males and So 1888 females 10 to Is
years of age engaged in gainful occupations; /
Or, stated otherwise, SIS per cent of the
males and 81 per cent of the females 10 to
IS years Of age were gainful workers. In K
900 thereswere n, $50 males and 80, All fe- *
males 10 to IS years of age engaged in +,
sainful occupations, which was ISL per
:ents OF all males and 23.s per cent of all the
emales 10 to IS years of age a