the central plateau are located make a better showing than the rest of the country. These are the regions where foreign influence has made itself most felt and where the government supervision of education has been most effective. [1]
The census of 1910 does not classify the population in a way that makes possible more than a very general statement concerning the activities to which the people devote themselves. In some cases there is great detail, as in the enumeration of the single archeologist and the lone apiculturist with which the country is credited. In another case 58,840 persons are lumped as "workers in industrial establishments." The enumeration of the chief classes given in the table below is valuable only for the general picture it gives of the proportion assigned to the larger divisions, and as an indication of the undiversified character of the national economic life.
Chief Occupations in Mexico [2]
| Unproductive, chiefly minors and students | 5,423,170 |
| Domestic workers | 4,673,804 |
| Agricultural workers, including 3,130,402 peons | 3,570,674 |
| Industries | 723,023 |
| Commerce, including 236,278 listed as merchants | 275,130 |
| Mining | 95,878 |
- ↑ The examination of the reports for individual states, however, does much to destroy faith in the value of the educational enumeration. The difference in the percentage of illiteracy announced in various districts seems much less than what must be the fact when the known inadequacy of the school system in some states is considered and seems to indicate that the census must have been taken very carelessly or that the test of what was to be considered ability to read and write was very low.
- ↑ None of the other general classes includes 100,000 souls. There
