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24 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.

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.