MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES
TABLE 6.—OCCUPATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF FOREIGN-BORN WHITES:
1910 and 1920.
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OCCUPATION | wr
NuMBER | PERCENT | NuMBER | PER CENT
Arr OCCUPATIONS 7,811,502 100.0 ; 7,746,460 100.0
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, AND ANIMAL
HUSBANDRY... LL Shan neice 1 006,911 14.0 931,561 12.0
EXTRACTION OF MINERALS............ 463,036 5.9 377,138 4.9
MANUFACTURING AND MECHANICAL
INDUSTRIES. .... . . 2400 Lo ES, 380, 430) 43.4 3,634,249 46.9
TRANSPORTATION... & ovis osu vle a win iw ah 692,412 8.9 |, 547,613 74
BRAD. Su nes mucho SET 732 9.9 860,530 | 11.1
PUBLIC SERVICE.» ed Ini 0 Lb i 99,772 1.30RAE 127 230 1:6
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE. ............. 202,699 2.6 231,719 3.0
DOMESTIC AND PERSONAL SERVICE... . 921,808 1.8 769,193 9.9
CLERICAL OCCUPATIONS... oc creer 173,652 -2 267,177 3.4
aCompiled from the U. S. Bureau of the Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States, Vol. IV, pp.
340-341. These occupation statistics include persons ten years of age or over.
TABLE 7.—THE PROPORTION OF FOREIGN-BORN WHITES IN THE TOTAL OF THE
GAINFULLY EMPLOYED AND AMONG ‘‘LABORERS,” BY OCCUPATIONAL
Groups: 1910 and 1920s
Per Cent.
ALL LISTED IN THE THOSE LISTED
INDUSTRY OCCUPATION AS LABORERS
1910 | 1920 1910 |! 1920
ALL GAINFULLY EMPLOYED 20.5 18.6 27.4» 23.3¢
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND ANIMAL
RB ANDRO et = ss ion 8.7 8.5 9.8 9.8
EXTRACTION OF MINERALS... .......... 48.0 34.6 350.1 d
MANUFACTURING AND MECHANICAL
INDUSTRIES. oven ie le head 31.9 28.4 38.5 31.2
"TRANSPORTATION. . + «iit £aisis «corrals ot 26.3 17.90. 50.1 31.5
A II. a i 2 gf ae feat tote aif ii 21.4 20.3 34.5 25.2
PUBLIC SERVICE, NOT ELSEWHERE SPE-TITREDIS
 rd Bra Sala roar aI 21.7 16.5 40.1 29.3
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE. . . . 1 vvves ns 12.0 10.8 23.6 e
DOMESTIC AND PERSONAL SERVICE... . . 24 4 22.6 31.3 26.0
aCompiled from the Thirteenth Census of the United States, Vol. IV, Occupation Statistics, and the Fourteenth
 Census of the United States, Vol. IV, Occupations. -
bIncludes mining and quarrying and is consequently not exactly comparable with the 1920 total.
cExcludes mining and quarrying. ; 0
dThe 1920 Census does not classify laborers separately in this industry. : ET
«The 1910 Census listed some laborers in “‘occupations connected with professional service,” but the
1920 Census gave no laborers under the designation ‘professional service.

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