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PERSONS LIVING ON UNEARNED INCOME.
THE CENSUS OF 1881 DID NOT SEPARATELY
SHOW PERSONS LIVING ON PURELY UNEARNED INCOME. There was one
classification in that census viz., "person of rank or property",
but the number of such persons in that year was negligible. Most of
the persons who lived on unearned income generally derived their
income from rent of agricultural land, but this class of persons was
not separately shown in that census. The 1911 census recorded two
classes of such persons, viz., those who derived their income from
the rent of agricultural land, those who derived it from property
other than agriculture such as houses, and investments, or from
pensions, or funds. The first class numbered 19,315 and the second
363. It is not, however, clear whether all those receiving
agricultural rent were living purely on such rent or some of them
had other occupations from which they supplemented their unearned
income. The 1931 census was clearer. In that year the number of
persons living purely on income from the rent of agricultural land
was 7,128, while those who supplemented this income by following
other occupations numbered 1,686. Those who lived purely on income
from other kinds of property was 245, while those who supplemented
this income by following other occupations was 54. The 1951 census
recorded 6,935 persons as living on agricultural rent, of whom 2,225
had secondary means of livelihood and 4,710 persons as living on
non-agricultural property, pensions, scholarships and other funds,
etc.
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