Stats from 1911 census.

The Scotsman newspaper dated March 28 1911 states that the number of enumerators was around 9000. Edinburgh 520, Glasgow 823, Dundee 178 and Aberdeen 158.

The report by Patton-MacDougall includes a thank you directed to all the staff who worked on it and names Mr Andrew Froude and Mr John J Cossar who were the supervisors on the project. Also mentioned were Dr Tocher, lecturer on statistical methods in the University of Aberdeen, who advised them on "the selection of statistical methods, and by freely criticising portions of the work submitted to him". Also Mr R M Hunter, member of the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland "by applying his mathematical skill to the graduation of the Single Ages Table", which appeared in the second volume.

For the first time the 1911 census requested details of nationality. The table below details the number of people born in the UK but outside Scotland.

Place of Birth Number Percentage of Total Population
England and Wales 165,102 3.47
Ireland 174,715 3.67

Of the total population of Scotland 30.96% consists of males of 10 years of age and upwards having remunerative occupations and 12.46% of females of these ages and occupations. Of these numbers those English and Welsh are 67,733 or 41.02% and 19,186 or 11.62%. Irish are 88,809 or 50.83% and 15,459 or 8.85%.

"This comparison shows that in both the English and Welsh and the Irish sections of the population of occupied males is larger than it is in total population, but that no such excess id found among females."

"The groups of occupations including largest numbers of occupied males of English, Welsh and Irish birth."

Occupations English and Welsh Irish
Manufacture of Iron and other Metals 12,599 24,813
Royal Navy 7,373
Commerce 4,208
Mining 3,809 11,909
Domestic Service (inc outdoor domestic service and service in hotels and eating houses) 3,775
Building Trades 2,332 4,963
Agriculture 2,055 3,232
Army 2,389
General Labourers 6,019
Road Transport 3,492
Railway Service 3,071
Dock 2,985
Local Government Service (inc gasworks and sanitary services) 2,924

Many nationalities were enumerated in 1911 see below the stats and countries of origin.

Nationality Total Males Females
Russians and Polish 11,032 6,520 4,512
Italians 4,594 3,103 1,491
Germans 2,362 1,509 853
Citizens of the United states of America 1,176 618 558
Norwegians 996 766 230
French 720 314 406
Danes 712 554 158
Swedes 711 580 131
Austrians and Hungarians 528 386 142
Dutch 407 298 109
Swiss 369 190 179
Spaniards 300 227 73
Belgians 137 87 50
Portugese 52 50 2
Turkish 38 29 9
Servians, Romanians and Burgarians 19 16 3
Asiatics
Chinese 155 16
Japanese 18 3
Other 60 11
Africans 88
Egyptian 58
African 30
Americans (other than United States Citizens)
Mexico 6
Brazil 48
Argentine Republic 54
Other 139

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