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"the inquiry with, respect to occupations at the Thirteenth Census called for a statement as to the "trade or profession of, or particular kind of work done" by each person engaged in gainful labor, and also as to the "general nature of industry, business, or establishment" in which the person worked. The statistics of the occupations of Indians reported in this volume are limited to gainful workers 10 years of age and upward. The term "gainful workers," as used in the printed instructions to enumerators and in this report, includes all workers, except women doing housework in their own homes, without salary or wages, and having no other employment, and children working at home, merely on general household work, on chores, or at odd times on other work. Sufficiency oj the occupation returns.—In general, the occupations of the Indians were not so carefully retm-ned by the enumerators as were the occupations of the whites. No doubt this was due largely to the greater difficulty of the task, but in some cases, pos- sibly, it was due to the inefficiency or carelessness of the enumerators. In Alaska the enumeration was in the winter. In some of the outlying sparsely populated districts it was necessary to use as enumerators persons of very limited educational qualifications. Moreover, the Indian population of Alaska is in large part illiterate. Under these conditions enumeration was at best difficult. But, because of the fact that the Alaska Indians are mainly hunt'ers, trappers, fishermen, and deer herders and keepers, there was little danger of the enumerators confusing occupations. However, some of these Indians may have been missed entirely, and probably o-thers were returned as gainfully occupied when they should not have been. In editing the returns both for the United States proper and for Alaska the most improbable cases of Indians returned as gainfully occupied were rejected; but, notwithstanding this, it is probable that too many of the Indians are reported as gainful workers. This is certainly true in the case of particular tribes, where the proportion gainfully employed exceeds 60 per cent. Number and 'proportion occupied.—Table 101 shows, for the United States and for Alaska, the number of Indians engaged in gainful occupations in comparison with the total Indian population and with the Indian population 10 years of age and over, for both sexes and for each sex separately, at the censuses of 1910 and 1900, respectively. (250) OCCUPATIONS. Tab
For the male Indian population 10 years of age and over the "proportion gainfidly occupied increased from 59.2 per cent in 1900 to 61.3 per cent in 1910, while for the female Indian population 10 years of age and over the proportion gainfully occupied increased from 13.8 per cent in 1900 to 16 per cent in 1910. In Alaska the proportion of the total Indian population engaged in gainful occupations decreased from 43.1 per cent in 1900 to 32.1 per cent in 1910, while the proportion of the population 10 years of age and over engaged in gainful occupations decreased from 55.2 per cent in 1900 to 45 per cent in 1910. This great decline was confined mainly to females, the proportion gainfully employed being 22.1 per cent in 1900, as compared with 6.1 per cent in 1910, for the total female Indian population, and 28.2 per cent in 1900, as compared with 8.7 per cent in 1910, for the female Indian population 10 years of age and over'. This decline, moreover, was confined principally to a few occupations. The number of female Indians returned as fishermen, or fish curers and, packers, decreased from 1,349 in 1900 to 298 in 1910; the number returned as hunters, trappers, or guides decreased from 1,271 in 1900 to 46 in 1910; and the nimiber returned as basket makers decreased from 274 in 1900 to 93 in 1910. These decreases, amoimting to 2,457, more than equal the decrease from 1900 to 1910 in the number of female Indians gainfully employed in Alaska. It is impossible to determine from the figures to what extent these great decreases were real and to what extent they were apparent only and due to inaccuracies in enumeration at the two censuses; but a comparison with the statistics showing the proportion of the female Indians of the United States proper engaged in gainful occupations in 1900 and in 1910, OCCUPATIONS. 251 respectively (Table 101), indicates that the proportion reported for the female Indians of Alaska probably was too large for 1900 and too smaU for 1910. Table 102 shows, for each of 22 selected states, the number and proportion of males and females 10 years of age and over engaged in gainful occupations in 1910, while similar statistics are presented for each principal stock and tribe in the United States and Alaska in Table 103 (p. 253). The proportion of each sex engaged in gainful occupations in each principal tribe is also shown graphically in the diagram on page 252. Table 102
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