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statement that a comparatively large proportion of the population
of Norway maintains itself by agriculture, fishing and trade, while
the Norwegian industrial population is still comparatively small.

If the Norwegian working population in 1891 be classified
according to their occupation and station in life, the following
result is obtained:

	Persons with Independent Occupation	Private Servants, etc.	Labourers, etc.	Total
Public functionaries & the professions......	6,048	16,102	4,846	26,996
Agriculture, cattle-farming, forest-cultivation . . .	123,382	3,743	207,968	335,093
Fishing	41,394	189	16,084	57,667
Mining & smelting, etc. .	44	337	4,133	4,514
Manufacture, road making, etc. ........	1,166	4,455	49,255	54,876
Handicrafts ......	32,722	675	42,395	75,792
Minor industries . . . ,	30,763	107	14,103	44,973
Trade & money transactions	16,959	15,070	10,620	42,649
Inn & tavern-keeping. . .	3,194	359	2,716	6,269
Transport by land, railway works, post, telegraph, etc. .....	2,068	2,787	7,735	12,590
Shipping, piloting, harbour & lighthouse administration, flotage, etc. . . .	1,819	13,742	29,807	45,368
Domestic work.....	305,324	13,142	153,547	472,013
Insufficiently defined daily work .........	1	115	8,543	8,659
Total	564,884	70,823	551,752	1,187,459

On account of the extent and very varied physical character
of our country, the various stations in life are distributed in very
unequal proportions throughout the country. Thus while 69.20 per
cent of the population of the whole country in Northern
Bergenhus, and rather less in Kristian’s and Romsdal’s divisions derived
their subsistence from agriculture, this was the case with only
18.30 per cent of the rural population of Finmarken, of which more
than ⅔ lived by fishing. In Tromsø division too, more than half
of the rural population was dependent on this last occupation,
which in Nordland provides 44 per cent of the country inhabitants

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