TABLE LIX
OCCUPATIONS OF "OLD" AND "NEW" IMMIGRATION (JEWISH EXCEPTED) AND OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION, 1899 TO 1909[1][ToT]
| Occupations | "Old" immigrations | "New" immigration (Jewish excepted) | Jewish immigration | |||
| Number | Per cent | Number | Per cent | Number | Per cent | |
| Professional | 56406 | 2.5 | 17080 | .3 | 6836 | .7 |
| Skilled laborers | 442754 | 19.5 | 441984 | 8.9 | 362936 | 36.7 |
| Farm laborers | 138598 | 6.1 | 1142064 | 23.1 | 9633 | 1.0 |
| Farmers | 40633 | 1.8 | 42605 | .9 | 908 | .1 |
| Common laborers | 402074 | 17.7 | 1814180 | 36.7 | 66311 | 6.7 |
| Servants | 424698 | 18.7 | 403784 | 8.2 | 61611 | 6.2 |
| No occupation | 678510 | 29.8 | 1041049 | 21.0 | 445728 | 45.0 |
| Miscellaneous | 90109 | 4.0 | 46324 | .9 | 36219 | 3.7 |
| Total | 2273782 | 100.0 | 4949070 | 100.0 | 990182 | 100.0 |
| [1] From Emigration Conditions in Europe, p. 29. | ||||||