502 OCCUPATIONS. 



It is of interest to note the 



CHANGES OF OCCUPATION 



wliicli are in progress, and with this view the following table has been 

 compiled from the returns of the Ninth and Tenth U. S. Census, show- 

 ing tlie percentage of persons at different ages and for the sexes engaged 

 iji all occupations in the United States and South Carolina in 1870 and 

 1880, and also the per cent, engaged in each of the four great classes of 

 occupations. 



D. 



The increase in the percentage of bread-winners among the old and 

 the young is clearly shown in this table, and is even more marked in 

 South Carolina than in the country at large. The only exception to the 

 general rule is found among males over sixty years in South Carolina. 

 The decrease in workers of this class is small, and is due, doubtless, to 

 reduction in the number and strength of this class as a consequence of 

 the late war, men now over sixty having been at that date in the prime 

 of life, and especially exposed to the casualties of war. That the same 



