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Industry statistics for small towns and Rural Districts in England and Wales for 1931

Table ID:
IND_1931_SMALL     (1251012)
Contents:
Industry statistics for small towns and Rural Districts in England and Wales for 1931
Approx. number of rows:
91,135
Table type:
Raw Data
Documentation Author:
Humphrey Southall
Geography:
Reporting units are identified by:
   Administrative County
   Local Government District
   Local Government District Type
Chronology:
The data are for the single year 1931.

Sources:

  1. The data were transcribed from Table 3. "Industries (condensed list) of Males and females aged 14 years and over,(exclusive of persons 'out of work')", for "Urban areas with populations not exceeding 50, 000 and rural districts", pp. 182-309 in Census 1931: England and Wales: Industry Tables (London: HMSO, 1934).
  2. This is a complete transcription of the county totals and figures for all individual districts in the above table.
  3. This data entry work was funded by the Greater London Council and the Centre for Cities.

Notes:

  1. This table complements Table 2, which holds a more detailed classification of county totals and of towns over 50,000 population, so does not contain any county or national totals.
  2. A note to the England and Wales table says that, unlike the Industry Tables both for 1921 and for 1951 and later, 'the areal classification is by each person's area of enumeration and not necessarily, therefore, by area of business.'
  3. While table 2 presents the complete industrial classification, including totals for Orders and sub-Orders, this table lists data for a somewhat ad hoc simplification of the full classification: some figures are simply totals for Orders, some are for sub-Orders, or groupings of sub-Orders, and some are ad hoc mergers of the individual 'Groups'. However, the table includes no sub-totals, so the sum of all the listed categories is the 'Total in Industries'. The way the ad hoc categories are constructed does, however, allow totals for each of the Orders to be constructed if they are not listed.

Checking:

  1. As the data were input, a check-sum was calculated to ensure that the total for all listed industrial categories matched the listed total for all industries. Two figures in the table are not included in this check sum, and consequently could not be checked at this stage: the second row, 'Out of work', and the final row, 'Industry not stated'.However, the latter is included within Order XXII, 'Other Industries or Industry not stated', and in most areas seemed to provide most of those in Order XXII, especially for women.
  2. The data have been further cross-checked against the figures for counties and large towns in table 2 of the Industry Report, by (a) summing the industry figures in this table across all districts in each county, (b) summing data in table 2 by the simpler industrial categories used in this table, for both overall county totals and the totals for all large towns within each county, and (c) comparing the male and female totals for each industry in each county to identify cases where the sum of the district figures did not match the reported county total.
  3. In the following cases, a value was 'corrected' even though it had been transcribed correctly from the printed table, because the transcribed value produced errors in both column check-sums, within the particular district, and the industry check-sums across the districts:
    • Berkshireshire: The figure for '8. Cutlery and Small Tools (not Machine Tools).' for females in Maidenhead MB was printed as blank but corrected to 1.
    • Cheshire: The figure for '5, 6. Mixed Fibres and Miscellaneous Products.' for females in Hazelgrove and Bramhall was printed as 2 but corrected to 8.
    • Cumberland: The figure for 'II.--Agriculture' for males in Harrington UD was printed as 73 but corrected to 63.
    • Cumberland: The figure for 'XIX.--Professions' for males in Keswick UD was printed as 46 but corrected to 56.
    • Devon: The figure for 'XIX.--Professions' for females in Ottery St. Mary UD was printed as 20 but corrected to 30.
    • Durham: The figure for '1. Railways' for males in Washington UD was printed as 16 but corrected to 61.
    • Ely, Isle of: The figure for '523-9. Electricity Supply Service' for females in March UD was printed as blank but corrected to 1.
    • Ely, Isle of: The figure for '1. Wood Working and Basket Ware' for males in North Witchford RD was printed as blank but corrected to 16.
    • Essex: The figure for '7. Ship Building and Repairing and Marine Engineering.' for females in Romford UD was printed as blank but corrected to 1.
    • Gloucestershire: The figure for '1. Rubber' in Stow on the Wold RD was printed as blank but corrected to 2.
    • Hertfordshire: The figure for '2. Central Civil Government (British and Imperial).' for males in Great Berkhampstead UD was printed as 34 but corrected to 134.
    • Kent: The figure for 'XXII.--Other Industries or Industry not stated.' for females in West Ashford RD was printed as blank but corrected to 1.
    • Lancashire: The figure for 'IX.--Manufacture of Clothing (not Knitted).' for males in Droylsden UD was printed as 52 but corrected to 53.
    • Lancashire: The figure for '10. Precious Metals, Jewellery, Plate.' for females in Lancaster MB was printed as blank but corrected to 1.
    • Lancashire: The figure for '3. Local Government.' for males in Whiston RD was printed as 542 but corrected to 452.
    • Leicestershire: The figure for 'XXI.--Personal Service (including Hotels and Catering, but excluding Government and Local Authority)' for males in Oadby UD was printed as 279 but corrected to 379.
    • Leicestershire: The figure for 'XIX.--Professions' for males in Quorndon UD was printed as 21 but corrected to 22.
    • Lincolnshire Lindsey: The figure for '7. Ship Building and Repairing and Marine Engineering' for females in Gainsborough RD was printed as 3 but corrected to blank.
    • Lincolnshire Lindsey: The figure for '680-699. Other Commerce and Finance' for females in Glanford Brigg RD was printed as blank but corrected to 6.
    • Norfolk: The figure for 'II.--Agriculture' for females in Erpingham RD was printed as 14 but corrected to 41.
    • Somerset: The figure for '4, 5. Greases, Glue, &c.' for females in Keynsham RD was printed as 28 but corrected t0 2.
    • Somerset: The figure for '7. Ship Building and Repairing and Marine Engineering' for males in Langport RD was printed as 3 but corrected to 1.
    • Somerset: The figures for 'XXI.--Personal Service (including Hotels and Catering, but excluding Government and Local Authority)' and for XXII.--Other Industries or Industry not stated' for females in Wincanton RD were printed as 89 and blank but corrected to 892 and 4.
    • Southampton (Hampshire): The figures for '8. Cutlery and Small Tools (not Machine Tools)' for females in Lymington MB was printed as 2 but corrected to blank.
    • Staffordshire: The figure for 'XIII.-- Building, Decorating, Stone and Slate Gutting and Dressing, and Contracting' for females in Cheadle RD was printed as blank but corrected to 6.
    • Suffolk, West: The figure for '7. Textile Dyeing, Printing, Bleaching, Calendering, Finishing' in Melford RD was printed as blank but was corrected to 2.
    • Wiltshire: The figure for '3. Other Manufacturing Industries' for males in Ramsbury RD was printed as 3 but corrected to 2.
    • Wiltshire: The figure for '9. Other Metal Industries (not Precious Metals, Jewellery, or Plate)' for females in Salisbury MB was printed as blank but corrected to 1.
    • Wiltshire: The figures for '3. Silk, Natural and Artificial' and '4. Flax, Hemp, Jute' for males in Warminster UD were printed as 4 and 8 respectively, but were corrected to 8 and blank.
    • Wiltshire: The figure for '3-7. Water, Air and Other Transport and Communication' for males in Wilton MB was printed as blank but corrected to 1.
    • Yorkshire, East Riding: The figure for '1. Rubber' for males in Patrington RD was printed as 2 but corrected to blank.
    • Yorkshire, East Riding: The figure for 'II.--Agriculture' for males in Skirlaugh RD was printed as 1,436 but corrected to 1,463.
    • Yorkshire, North Riding: The figure for 'II.--Agriculture' for females in Eston UD was printed as 3 but corrected to 4.
    • Yorkshire, North Riding: The figure for '2. Road' for males in Whitby RD was printed as 7 but corrected to 47.
    • Yorkshire, West Riding: The figure for 'XIX.--Professions' for females in Hemsworth UD was printed as 8 but corrected to 9.
    • Yorkshire, West Riding: The figure for '1. Railways' for males in Mexborough UD was printed as 626 but corrected to 627.
    • Yorkshire, West Riding: The figure for '600-670. Distributive Trades' for females in Swinton UD was printed as 14 but corrected to 140.
    • Yorkshire, West Riding: The figure for 'XIX.--Professions' for males in Wath-upon-Dearne UD was printed as 54 but corrected to 51.
    • Denbighshire: The figure for '2. Furniture (not Metal or Basket); Fittings' for males in Wrexham RD was printed as 11 but corrected to 111.
    • Pembrokeshire: The figure for '9. Other Metal Industries (not Precious Metals, Jewellery, or Plate)' for males in Fishguard UD was printed as 1 but corrected to blank.
  4. Following the above checking and correcting work, inconsistencies remained in three counties which could not be resolved. NB these may be the result of errors in the 'large towns' table; and in most cases the inconsistency is either within engineering or within textiles, so overall figures for broad sectors remain correct:
    • Durham: six of the 'small town' industries contained inconsistencies in either or both of males and females, which cumulatively cancelled out:
      • VI: '8. Cutlery and Small Tools (not Machine Tools)': reported total for males less than computed total by 11, and reported total for females less than computed total by 1.
      • VI: '9. Other Metal Industries (not Precious Metals, Jewellery, or Plate)': reported total for males greater than computed total of districts by 5, and reported total for females greater than computed total by 1.
      • VI: '10. Precious Metals, Jewellery, Plate': reported total for males greater than computed total by 5.
      • VII: '1. Cotton': reported total for males greater than computed total of districts by 1.
      • VII: '4. Flax, Hemp, Jute': reported total for males less than computed total by 3, and reported total for females less than computed total by 26.
      • VII: '5, 6. Mixed Fibres and Miscellaneous Products': reported total for males greater than computed total by 3, and reported total for females greater than computed total by 26.
    • Northamptonshire: The reported total for males in '3. Silk, Natural and Artificial' was greater than the computed total of the districts by 1, and the reported total for males in '4. Flax, Hemp, Jute' was less than the computed total by 1.
    • Surrey: There are inconsistencies for three industries:
    • VI: '4. Engineering (not Marine or Electrical)': The reported total for females is greater than the computed total of districts by 2.
    • VI: '6. Construction and Repair of Vehicles': The reported total for females is less than the computed total of districts by 2.
    • VII: '3. Silk, Natural and Artificial': The reported total for females is less than the computed total of districts by 2.
    Either the second or third inconsistency in industry totals is linked to the reported total in all industries for females in Epsom RD being less than the computed total by 2, but it is impossible to say which.

Indices:

IndexTypeColumn(s) indexed
ind_1931_small_admc_unit_idx   admc_unit, lg_dist, lg_type
ind_1931_small_idx Unique col_seq, row_seq
ind_1931_small_idx_name Unique adm_cnty, lg_dist, lg_type, row_seq

Columns within table:

ColumnTypeContents
col_seq Integer number. Number placing units in the order in which they appear in the original table.
nation Text string (max.len.=6). Single-character code for nation: 'E' = England, 'W' = Wales.
admc_name Text string (max.len.=42). Name of the Administrative County as printed in the census report.
adm_cnty Text string (max.len.=42). Name of the Administrative County, as revised for matching purposes.
lg_name Text string (max.len.=68). Name of unit as originally listed in the report.
lg_dist Text string (max.len.=68). Cleaned version of the unit name.
lg_type Text string (max.len.=8). Type of local government unit. These include 'MB' = 'Municipal Borough', 'RD' = 'Rural District', 'UD' = 'Urban District'.
part_of Text string (max.len.=6). Holds 'P' when the district name in the census report was followed by '(part of)', and null otherwise.
admc_unit Integer number. ID number of the Administrative County containing the local government district, as defined in the GBHGIS AUO.
g_unit Integer number. ID number of the local government district, as defined in the GBHGIS AUO.
row_seq Integer number. Sequence number identifying the different rows for each unit, and placing them in the correct order.
order_num Text string (max.len.=9). Roman numeral indicating industrial Order, from I to XXII.
industry Text string (max.len.=124). Name of the category as listed in the table. As discussed above, these are sometimes ad hoc combinations of sub-Orders, such as '5, 6. Mixed Fibres and Miscellaneous Products.' or of Groups, such as '680-699. Other Commerce and Finance.'. This column also holds the labels for the three totals listed:
  • Total in Industries (excluding persons out of work).
  • Out of work (not included below).
  • X.--Industry not stated (included in Order XXII).
industry_id Text string (max.len.=24). Code defined by us to identify each category, each starting with the roman numeral identifying the Order but followed by a short string identifying the particular category, such as 'XVIII_DEFENCE', 'XVIII_CIVIL' and'XVIII_LOCAL', these being the listed divisions of Order XVIII, Public Administration. The three totals within the table are identified here as TOTAL, UNEM and NS.
males Integer number. Number of males employed.
females Integer number. Number of females employed.