Excerpt from Statistical Papers: Based on the Census of England and Wales, 1851, and Relating to the Occupations of the People and the Increase of Population 1841-51

The main principle upon which a classification of occupations ought to be based seems to me to be, such a common relationship of the members of each class respectively to the whole community as shall render the total numbers of each of the classes intelligible facts. In other words, the mere totals of the classes. Made use of should convey a fair idea of the nature of the population of any given locality. When the totals of classes sometimes leave us in doubt whether a place mainly depends on mining or on manufactures, on alarge class of employers of servants or on extensive stocking or glove manufactures, for the sustenance of its population, surely we must deem such a classification improvable. And yet, in spite of the seventeen classes of the Census Commissioners, this amount of doubt rests on their figures.

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