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A study of the census will show some other classes, all small, which 

 might be included in our grouping, but even in the aggregate they will 

 not be large enough to affect our estimate seriously, and may be left 

 as part of the margin which may be included either in the intermediate 

 group or the wage-earning group, and must be included in one or the 

 other. Additional classes, however, 5a (missionaries, &c.) and 11a 

 (showmen, &c), are inserted in a further table (p. 195). 



It must be remembered that the whole estimate is dependent on 

 the census classification, that is, ultimately, on the occupations which 

 persons returned themselves as following in 1901, and we have no 

 means of going behind this classification, except in those few cases 

 where there are independent statements of the numbers of persons in 

 an occupation, and even then the difficulties of comparison are enormous. 

 In the supplementary table annexed are given some details under our 

 classes 25 to 29 in order that it may be seen what occupations provide 

 the greatest number under these composite headings: — 



Census — Further details. 



* Carpenters, 17 ; painters, 11 ; plumbers, 5 ; builders, 5. 



t Tailors, 16 ; bootmakers, 38. 



1 Coffee-house, 6 ; lodging-house, 4 ; publicans, &c, 44. 



§ Milliners, 8 ; tailors, 5 ; dressmakers, 153 ; seamstresses, 15. 



