1951 Census of England and Wales, Industry Tables (Laid before Parliament pursuant to Section 4 (1), Census Act, 1920), Table 3 : " Industries (Orders and Selected Units) and Status Aggregates. Occupied Males and Females aged 15 and over for Urban Areas with population of less than 50,000, RD, NT".

Show England Dep table	Dorset AdmC	Beaminster RD Blandford RD Blandford Forum MB Bridport MB Bridport RD Dorchester MB Dorchester RD Lyme Regis MB Poole MB Portland UD Shaftesbury MB Shaftesbury RD Sherborne RD Sherborne UD Sturminster RD Swanage UD Wareham MB Wareham and Purbeck RD Weymouth and Melcombe Regis MB Wimborne and Cranborne RD Wimborne Minster UD

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	87,365	27,973
Married women (included in Total)	0	8,632
Employers	3,893	533
Managers	3,176	877
Operatives	72,960	24,888
Working on own account	7,336	1,675
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	13,473	1,479
1. Agriculture and horticulture	12,909	1,457
II. Mining and quarrying	823	8
10. Coal mining	11	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	812	8
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	2,572	363
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	866	39
24. Cement	6	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	1,064	221
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	999	201
V. Metal manufacture	103	6
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	4,873	643
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	1,454	83
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	88	20
56. Textile machinery and accessories	33	2
58. Constructional engineering	208	14
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	2,661	295
70. Electrical machinery	88	2
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	116	129
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	225	98
VII. Vehicles	2,970	293
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	331	18
81. Motor repairers and garages	2,241	202
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	331	72
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	828	688
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	345	64
X. Textiles	568	506
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	1	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	2	1
112. Woollen and worsted	7	3
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	36	61
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	4	17
123. Textile finishing, etc.	2	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	46	2
XII. Clothing	476	565
140. Tailoring	123	105
141. Dressmaking	5	193
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	254	16
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	2,819	785
150-162. Food	2,081	641
163-168. Drink	731	141
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	989	63
170. Timber	580	27
171. Furniture and upholstery	136	21
XV. Paper and printing	618	164
180. Paper and board	70	16
186,189. Printing and publishing	538	146
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	167	106
XVII. Building and contracting	9,656	150
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	2,717	127
210. Gas	1,403	63
211. Electricity	1,112	59
212. Water	202	5
XIX. Transport and communication	5,646	698
220. Railways	1,540	44
221,222. Road passenger transport	1,282	95
223. Goods transport by road	899	41
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	668	8
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	1,146	501
XX. Distributive trades	7,715	5,451
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	1,058	149
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	340	26
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	327	177
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	2,876	1,969
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	562	98
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	2,273	2,719
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	279	313
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	1,168	335
XXII. Public administration and defence	18,818	1,084
260. National government service	15,733	580
265. Local government service	3,085	504
XXIII. Professional services	3,568	4,804
271. Education	1,384	2,169
273. Medical and dental services	1,036	2,042
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	5,272	9,340
280,281. Entertainment and sport	571	281
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	1,997	3,528
286. Laundries	162	744
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	42	89
288. Hairdressing and manicure	251	329
290,291. Private domestic service	1,819	4,203
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	71	28

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Dorset AdmC:

Rate	Date
Agriculture	1951
Finance & Business Services	1951
Manufacturing	1951
Mining	1951
Public Services	1951

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