 The number of people employed in trades was 38,400 in 12,800 enterprises.Improvements in the socio-economic situation of the ethnically Belarusian peasantry were very slow.Statistically, ethnic Poles constituted 14,5% of general population in 1931; Polish Jews, about 10,1% (or 114,000) half of whom (at roughly 49%) lived in the cities.