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. | ||||||
TABLE LX
ILLITERACY OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS, 1899 TO 1910[1][ToT]
| Year | Jewish immigrants 14 years of age and over | Jewish immigrant illiterates[2] 14 years of age and over | Per cent illiterate |
| 1899 | 28428 | 5637 | 19.5 |
| 1900 | 47672 | 10607 | 22.2 |
| 1901 | 43367 | 10119 | 23.3 |
| 1902 | 42376 | 11921 | 28.1 |
| 1903 | 57159 | 14980 | 26.2 |
| 1904 | 82707 | 18763 | 22.6 |
| 1905 | 101357 | 22770 | 22.4 |
| 1906 | 110128 | 29444 | 26.7 |
| 1907 | 111486 | 31885 | 28.6 |
| 1908 | 77374 | 23217 | 30.3 |
| 1909 | 42341 | 12201 | 28.8 |
| 1910 | 62391 | 17963 | 28.8 |
| Total | 806786 | 209507 | 26.0 |
| [1] From Reports of Commissioner-General of Immigration. | |||
| [2] Those who could neither read nor write. | |||