206 On the Numerical Changes of the 



Proportional change of 10,000 Families, chiefly employed 

 In Agriculture. 



In Trade, Manufactures, 

 or Handicraft. 



Otherwise than the two 

 preceding Classes. 



To facilitate comparison, the total population of each county has 

 been assumed at 10,000 families ; and from this radix, the pro- 

 portional number of families for each of the classes has been de- 

 duced by a simple numerical operation, from the absolute popula- 

 tion recorded in the returns for 1811 and 1821. The difference 

 between the results thus obtained for the two periods, in each 

 county, produced the results given in the preceding tables ; and 

 which are so arranged, as to present, for one extreme, the maxi- 

 mum of increase, and for the other, the maximum of decrease ; the 

 intermediate steps indicating by their proper signs + or — , the 

 increments or decrements of the respective counties, according as 

 their respective divisions have been augmented or diminished. As 

 an example, to prevent a misconception of the tables, it may be 

 added, that during the ten years from 1811 to 1821, the agricul- 

 tural population of Norfolk has diminished in the ratio of 125 

 families to 10,000; the county of Hereford has increased its manu- 

 facturing population in that of 58 families to 10,000; and Suffolk 

 decreased the class of its non-productive labourers, 26 families out 

 of the same number. 



By a reference to the table of general results, it will be perceived, 

 that the aggregate agricultural population of England, Wales, and 

 Scotland, has diminished ; but that the families employed in trade 

 and manufactures have increased. The third, or unproductive 

 class, has received a small diminution in England, but in Wales 

 and Scotland they have been augmented, and in the former con- 



