CENSUS OF THE IDLE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 36, 10 November 1911, Page 14

CENSUS OF THE IDLE.

55 in every 100 Persons Unoccupied.

Fifty-five persons in every hundred in the United Kingdom are "idle." That, of course, includes children, the aged, and women, not definitely engaged in trade ox occupation. In Germany the figures are 54, in the United States.62, and in France 49. These figures are given in "Foreign Labor Statistics" issued by the British Board of Trade on, January 21. They are official, but in many cases apply to some years ago, and any comparison of the proportion of unemployed, hours of work and Wages in the different countries must be made with numerous qualifications. But the following shows clearly how the countries differ as regards the kind of work undertaken. The table shows the percentage of the total occupied population in groups of trade: —

Seventy per cent, of the workers in Hungary are farming and 41 in France. The nest most popular occupation in France is that connected with dress, which employs 8 per cent.

Farming Commerce Transport r Mines Iron, etc., works ... Building Textiles Dress * U.K. 12.6 11.3 8.2 5.0 ■7-8 '6.7 6.9 7.2 ( Ger. 35.1 6.3 2.8 3.2 6.9 6.9 3.7 5.3 U.S.. 35.6 9.9 0.9 2.0 3.7 4.4 2.0 4.2