ECONOMIC DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION. 



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1846-47, and the returns of 184 1 for Ireland appear to be sufficiently 

 correct : — 



* Of those engaged in productive industry (or agriculture, fishing, mining, building, and 

 manufacture, although in actual numbers there has been a decline of 76,000 in the 10 years, 

 the proportion to the total of those employed shows an apparent increase from 60.4 in 1881 

 to 64.8 in 1891. This increase is, however, in reality mainly due to the changed method 

 (already noted) of enumerating those engaged in domestic work, which, by transferring a 

 great body of women from the occupied to the unoccupied class, has reduced domestic service 

 by 6 per cent., and has correspondingly increased the proportion of the other occupied classes. 



With dependents apportioned to each class, the following are the figures 

 Table B.— Showing Means of Support of the People of Ireland by Per-centage (Estimate). 



t Army and Navy were omitted from the Census of Ireland in 1841 and 1851. 

 j It is probable that domestic service should be i per cent, more in this year, and farm 

 service (agriculture) i per cent. less. The returns point to confusion in this respect. 



The numbers employed in agriculture have decreased since 1841 by 

 858,000, out of a total of 1,844,000, and those who may perhaps be counted 



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