Variable : 1861 Occupational Orders

Variables serve as the dimensions of nCubes, and are generally based on the questions on forms such as the census schedule. However, in the aggregate data held in the Vision of Britain system we do not store the individual responses but counts of the number of each kind of response, so variables are made up of categories, such as age groups.

Identifier:

V_OCC_ORD1861

Name:

1861 Occupational Orders

Type:

Variable (V)

Text:

This system of 18 occupational 'Orders' was used by the 1861 Census of Population, where they were grouped into five very broad 'Classes' and broken down into a large number of sub-Orders. The only titles given to these Orders in the original reports are often very long, so we have included those here as comments and given them shorter titles, sometimes but not always based on shortening those given. Note that this system includes substantial groups who were not in employment, and we have retained these here. We have also added a 19th 'Order' to cover those with no known occupation.

Variable " 1861 Occupational Orders " is contained within:

Datasets or nCubes, containing the actual data:

Entity ID	Entity Name
N_OCC_ORD1861_OVER20	Persons aged 20 & over by Sex & 1861 Occupational Order

Variable Groups, bringing together related variables:

Entity ID	Entity Name
VG_OCC	Occupation

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Variable " 1861 Occupational Orders " contains:

Categories, defining the values available for each variable :

Entity ID	Entity Name
C_OCC_ORD1861_1	National & Local Government
C_OCC_ORD1861_2	Defence of the Country
C_OCC_ORD1861_3	Professions & Arts
C_OCC_ORD1861_4	Wives, Mothers, Children
C_OCC_ORD1861_5	Personal [Services]
C_OCC_ORD1861_6	[Business Persons & Traders]
C_OCC_ORD1861_7	[Transport]
C_OCC_ORD1861_8	[Farming]
C_OCC_ORD1861_9	Engaged about Animals
C_OCC_ORD1861_10	Art & Mechanic Productions
C_OCC_ORD1861_11	Textiles & Dress
C_OCC_ORD1861_12	Food & Drink
C_OCC_ORD1861_13	Animal Substances
C_OCC_ORD1861_14	Vegetable Substances
C_OCC_ORD1861_15	Mineral Substances
C_OCC_ORD1861_16	KKBranch of Labour undefined
C_OCC_ORD1861_17	Persons of Rank or Property
C_OCC_ORD1861_18	Supported by the Community
C_OCC_ORD1861_19	Unknown