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agriculture. Nevertheless, the increase in the dependents of 

 the industrial class has not been quite proportionate to the 

 increase of the workers. In fact, it appears that there is, 

 relatively to the total number employed, a decrease in the 

 number of dependents in all occupations, this being most 

 marked in the case of agriculture. Of the three large groups 

 — agriculture, industries, and commerce — the first-named has 

 the smallest number of dependents to each individual \^orker. 



This being the case, we are prepared to find that the 

 number of women employed in agriculture far exceeds the 

 number in other industries : in fact, the women engaged in 

 agriculture number 2,753,154, or more than half the whole 

 number of occupied women, who amount to but 5,264,408 

 altogether (this is of course exclusive of the domestic servants, 

 numbering- over a million, living in the households of the 

 occupied persons). The women employed in industries 

 amount to 1,521,133. 



Contrary to what has been observed in Great Britain, the 

 figures show that the total slight increase in the number of 

 persons engaged in agriculture is entirely due to the women, 

 the men showing a decline. This may, however, possibly be 

 due to a more exact inquiry into the position of dependents 

 helping the head of the household ; a somewhat different 

 classification may thus have transferred some persons from 

 dependents to workers. But dependents helping- the head 

 (who are counted as workers), nevertheless appear to have 

 decreased by 2 per cent. The possibility of alterations in 

 •classification, owing to more rigid scrutiny, may, of course, 

 also modify other changes in proportions noted hereafter. 

 The numbers of each sex following agriculture are as 

 follows : — 





Numbers. 



Increase or Decrease. 



1895. 



1882. 



Number. 



Per cent. 



Men . . ■ . 

 Women - - 



Total 



5^539,538 

 2,753,^54 



5,701,587 

 2,534,909 



- 162,049 

 + 218,245 



-2-84 

 + 8-6i 



8,292,692 



8,236,496 



+ 56,196 



+ 0-68 



