Swale Rural District (RD) : Work & Poverty Statistics

Created: 01 Apr 1935   Abolished: 1974

These simple graphs compare Swale with national trends:

Time Series Period Covered Description
Female Activity Rate 1951 Nationally, the proportion of women doing paid work has risen fairly steadily from 34% in 1931, pea…
Male self-employment 1951 From 1951 onwards, the census allows us to calculate the proportion of economically-active males wo…
Male Unemployment 1951 In twentieth century Britain, unemployment was the primary measure of economic distress. It has bee…

We hold these detailed statistics for Swale, which we graph and tabulate here:

Time Series Period Covered Variables (number of categories)
Census Unemployment by Sex 1951 Sex (2)
Census Unemployment (3)
Economically Active by Sex 1951 Sex (2)
Economically Active (2)

Read more about how we hold statistics here.