The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

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Identifikator:: 1757028552

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-135495

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 152 Seiten; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. Employment and wages in agriculture

Collection:: Economics Books

7 CHAPTER VIII.—EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES IN AGRICULTURE. Agricultural Employment as shown in the Occupation Tables of the Population Census.—In considering the productivity of agriculture, a question of great interest is the extent to which the land of this country provides employment or a means of livelihood for a portion of the population. The main source of information on this point is found in the Occupation Tables of the Decennial Population Census which indicate the number of persons who declare themselves as engaged in occupations connected with agriculture or horticulture. In addition to these, there is an unknown number who have some other principal occupation, but who still derive some income or other benefit or advantage either from the occupation of land or from employment in connection with it. The most obvious examples of the first class are the considerable numbers of tradesmen in country districts such as butchers, inn-keepers and others who occupy land in connection with their business or who may actually carry on farming, but who would return themselves in the census under their principal and primary occupation. A substantial proportion of the smaller holdings must be in the occupation of persons who have other means of livelihood and who describe themselves under headings other than those which would bring them into the agricultural groups. In the same way in the case of wage-earners, there are a large number of workers of various kinds who are intermittently or partially engaged in some form of agriculture or horticulture, but who would not regard it as their main source of livelihood. No definite estimate can, how- ever, be made of the number of persons who are thus, as a secondary occupation, engaged on or in connection with the land, but it is probably quite appreciable. The Occupation Tables of the Decennial Census, then, may be taken broadly as showing the number of persons whose main or primary occupation is connected with agriculture and the changes which have taken place in England and Wales during the past 50 years will be seen from the following table. Com- parison is subject to certain reservations especially in regard to the various subheads, since the classification into groups by the census authorities has not been uniform throughout.

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