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Occupational structure ranks high among the attributes of population as an area characterizing and area differentiating element. This factor is closely related to the physical resource base, stage of socio-economic development, technological advancement and cultural pattern of a region. It greatly influences the characteristics of a population such as changes in growth rate, literacy rate, sex ratio and pace of urbanization. Besides, the size of productive work force in various occupations is an important variable for comparisons and explanations of the inter zonal disparities in the levels of development within the region, hence occupational structure and its changes reflect the readjustments in its socio-economic processes which shape the character of an area. The study of the spatial demographic analysis of Nawada district, have witnessed radical social and economic transformation, would be incomplete without a detailed discussion on its occupational structure. In this paper, it is proposed to discuss the form of changes in the occupational structure and its typology; rural-urban occupational differential and spatial distribution of rural workers during the study period.