KEY Agr: Agriculture Ind: Industry Com: Commerce and Traffic Dom: Domestic service Pub: Public service and learned professions Noo: No occupation Tot: Total ====+====================================+===================== | Persons gainfully employed | Increase (+) or | in principal calling | decrease (−) +------------------------------------+ since 1882 | 1882 1895 1907 | ----+------------------------------------+--------------------- Agr | 8,236,496 8,292,692 9,883,257 | + 1,646,761 = 19.89 Ind | 6,396,465 8,281,220 11,256,254 | + 4,859,789 = 75.98 Com | 1,570,318 2,338,511 3,477,626 | + 1,907,308 = 121.46 Dom | 397,582 432,491 477,695 | + 74,113 = 18.63 Pub | 1,031,147 1,425,961 1,738,530 | + 707,383 = 68.56 Noo | 1,354,486 2,142,808 3,404,983 | + 2,050,497 = 151.40 --+------------------------------------+--------------------- Tot | 18,986,494 22,913,683 30,232,345 | +11,245,851 = 53.95 ----+------------------------------------+--------------------- ====+====================================+===================== | Persons gainfully employed | Increase (+) or | including their families | decrease (−) +------------------------------------+ since 1882 | 1882 1895 1906 | ----+------------------------------------+--------------------- Agr | 19,225,455 18,501,307 17,681,176 | − 1,544,279 = 18.18 Ind | 16,058,080 20,253,241 26,386,537 | +10,328,457 = 64.25 Com | 4,531,080 5,966,836 8,278,239 | + 3,747,159 = 82.69 Dom | 938,294 886,807 792,748 | − 145,546 = 15.57 Pub | 2,222,982 2,835,014 3,407,126 | + 1,184,144 = 53.33 Noo | 2,246,222 3,327,069 5,174,703 | + 2,928,481 = 130.36 --+------------------------------------+--------------------- Tot | 45,222,113 51,760,284 61,720,528 | +19,878,066 = 34.27 ----+------------------------------------+--------------------- These figures show that during the twenty-five years referred to, a considerable shifting of the population and its occupations has taken place. The population employed in industry, commerce and traffic has increased at the expense of the agricultural population. Almost the entire increase in population--6,548,171 from 1882 to 1895, and 9,950,245 from 1895 to 1907--has been absorbed by the former. Although the number of persons gainfully employed in industry as their principal calling has increased, this increase has not kept pace with the general growth of the population, and the number of the members of the families of persons so employed has even decreased by 1,544,279 = 8 per cent.