Latest revision as of 13:57, 22 August 2006

TABLE 15

OCCUPATION: 1866-1896

                                                                                           
            All Occupations    
                          Percent     Agri-                                                 Other
Sex and      Number a/     of pop.   cultural-    Laborers c/ Mechanics  Professional       occu-  
census year               over 15    alists b/                               workers d/    pations

Both sexes:
  1866           ---         ---       8,258         5,025      1,146             512           ---
  1872           ---         ---       9,670         4,772      5,115             582           ---
  1878        24,795        59.4       8,763         7,871      2,606                 5,555
  1884        39,541        68.1      10,968        12,351      3,919                12,303
  1890        41,073        61.8       5,377        25,466      2,802             638         6,790
  1896        55,294        70.2       7,570        34,438      2,265           1,224         9,797


Male:
  1890        38,930        83.6       5,280        23,863      2,690             483         6,614
  1896        51,705        91.0       7,435        32,027      2,265             942         9,036


Female:
  1890         2,143        10.8          97         1,603        112             155           176
  1896         3,589        16.3         135         2,411        ---             282           761
                                                                                            
   a/   May include workers under 15.

   b/   "Agriculturalists" to 1884; "framers" and "planters and ranchers" for 1890; and "farmers and
agriculturalists," "rice planters," "coffee planters," and "ranchers for 1896.

   c/   "Laborers" in 1866, 1890, and 1896; "plantations laborers" in 1872 and "contract laborers" in 
1878 and 1884. 

   d/ "Professionalists" in 1866; "clergymen," "teachers," "licensed physicians," and "lawyers" in
1872; "professional men and teachers" in 1890; and "doctors," "lawyers," and "other professions" in
1896.

Source: Schmitt, p 77.

TABLE 16

GAINFULLY EMPLOYED MALES CLASSIFIED AS PROFESSIONAL, 1896-1960

                            Number Employed                                      Per Cent of Total                     
                 1896     1910     1930    1950     1960    1896     1910     1930     1950      1960
 Hawaiian         132      126      242      93       */    1.4       1.6      4.1      3.6        */
 Part-Hawaiian     54       71      293     649       */    4.0       3.1      6.7      6.3        */
 Portuguese        30}              180}                     .7}      2.6}
                     }     444         }  4,232    5,589       }      3.1}             16.9      17.9
 Other Caucasian  164}            1,563}                    4.9}     17.2}          
 Chinese          300       65      259     876    1,633    1.8        .5      3.0     10.7      16.6
 Japanese          88      221    1,204   2,506    5,286     .5        .5      3.4      5.5      10.1 
 Filipino                           268     296      424                        .6      1.2       1.8
 Korean                              58     121       */                       2.7      8.6        */
 Puerto Rican                        20      15       */                       1.1       .9        */
 All others        13       23       32     138       */    2.2        .4      4.2      3.7        */

          TOTAL   781      950    4,119   8,829   14,025    1.5       1.1      3.4      7.3      10.2

/* Not separately available.

Source: Lind. p. 80