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show that women working full-time in shops, or from home, were quite common in the area.
The "Occupations" statistics, when read against the population figures for the individual settlements given in the 1911 Census also throw a good deal of light on urban life in the New Territories. As mentioned a number of times, the towns of Southern District were more important to the society of that District than were the towns of Northern District In both 1911 and 1921 a far higher percentage of those with recorded occupations who were working in “urban” occupations was recorded in Southern District (see Table 27).
Table 27
Persons in Urban Occupations, 1911 and 1921 Censuses
* Includes New Kowloon
• Does not include the floating population
While the problems arising from the inadequacies of the "Occupations" tables in the two censuses make the detail of Table 27 not to be fully depended on, nonetheless the much more heavily urban character of the Southern society comes out clearly. The 1911 Census, which gives details of the population of every settlement, also allows us to see the relative size of the towns, which in Northern District were tiny when compared with those in Southern. The details are at Table 28.
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show that women working full-time in shops, or from home, were quite common in the area.
The "Occupations" statistics, when read against the population figures for the individual settlements given in the 1911 Census also throw a good deal of light on urban life in the New Territories. As mentioned a number of times, the towns of Southern District were more important to the society of that District than were the towns of Northern District In both 1911 and 1921 a far higher percentage of those with recorded occupations who were working in “urban” occupations." was recorded in Southern District (see Table 27).
Table 27
Persons in Urban Occupations, 1911 and 1921 Censuses
District
Total
In urban
population
occupations
Northern District 1911: (M)
22770
3859
169%
(F)
14387
105
0.7%
Northern District 1921. _(M)
34753
4669
13.4%
(F)
12320
924
7.5%
Southern District 1911. (M)*•
11036
5017
45 5%
(F)*• Southern District 1921 (M)*
(F)*
2270
344
15 2%
18418
4894
26.6%
4329
1100
25.4%
* Includes New Kowloon
• Does not include the floating population
While the problems arising from the inadequacies of the "Occupations" tables in the two censuses make the detail of Table 27 not to be fully depended on, nonetheless the much more heavily urban character of the Southern society comes out clearly. The 1911 Census, which gives details of the population of every settlement, also allows us to see the relative size of the towns, which in Northern District were tiny when compared with those in Southern. The details are at Table 28.
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