Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

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Data for 1841 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 630 Show data context 41 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 4,277 Show data context 4,569 Show data context
Wood & paper 419 Show data context 21 Show data context
Chemicals 27 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 1,112 Show data context 5 Show data context
High tech. 848 Show data context 2 Show data context
Other 740 Show data context 234 Show data context
Data for 1861 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 644 Show data context 67 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 3,294 Show data context 5,652 Show data context
Wood & paper 521 Show data context 538 Show data context
Chemicals 229 Show data context 53 Show data context
Low tech 1,319 Show data context 15 Show data context
High tech. 1,059 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 1,271 Show data context 561 Show data context
Data for 1881 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 843 Show data context 153 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 2,934 Show data context 4,623 Show data context
Wood & paper 754 Show data context 1,139 Show data context
Chemicals 297 Show data context 30 Show data context
Low tech 1,639 Show data context 11 Show data context
High tech. 1,500 Show data context 2 Show data context
Other 2,236 Show data context 1,498 Show data context
Data for 1911 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 1,800 Show data context 1,958 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 2,812 Show data context 6,454 Show data context
Wood & paper 1,815 Show data context 1,261 Show data context
Chemicals 767 Show data context 63 Show data context
Low tech 1,805 Show data context 84 Show data context
High tech. 4,172 Show data context 22 Show data context
Other 2,490 Show data context 938 Show data context
Data for 1931 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 2,484 Show data context 2,359 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 1,718 Show data context 3,764 Show data context
Wood & paper 2,536 Show data context 1,283 Show data context
Chemicals 743 Show data context 114 Show data context
Low tech 733 Show data context 117 Show data context
High tech. 4,484 Show data context 198 Show data context
Other 1,794 Show data context 798 Show data context
Data for 1951 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 2,906 Show data context 1,684 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 922 Show data context 2,545 Show data context
Wood & paper 1,848 Show data context 842 Show data context
Chemicals 989 Show data context 240 Show data context
Low tech 1,997 Show data context 304 Show data context
High tech. 5,568 Show data context 361 Show data context
Other 1,570 Show data context 761 Show data context
Data for 1971 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 3,650 Show data context 2,983 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 929 Show data context 1,561 Show data context
Wood & paper 1,488 Show data context 561 Show data context
Chemicals 960 Show data context 221 Show data context
Low tech 1,185 Show data context 255 Show data context
High tech. 4,462 Show data context 318 Show data context
Other 1,000 Show data context 345 Show data context
Date: Source:
1841 1841 Census of Great Britain, Occupations, Table [1] , 'Occupation Abstract'
1861 1861 Census of England and Wales, Ages, Table 17 , 'Occupations of Males aged 20 Years and upwards in Districts'
1861 1861 Census of England and Wales, Ages, Table 18 , 'Occupations of Females aged 20 Years and upwards in Districts'
1881 - 1991 Census of Population
1971 1971 Census of England and Wales, Economic activity County Leaflets, Table 3 , 'Industry and status by area of workplace and sex', for 'County, county boroughs, urban areas with populations of 50,000 or more, conurbation centres'

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Our presentation of long-run trends in economic activity is based around the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification, but in that Manufacturing is treated as just one of twenty-one "Sections". Earlier classifications provide far more detail of manufacturing, so to present some of that detail in long-run perspective here we use a seven-way sub-classification of manufacturing used by the 2011 Census of England and Wales (unfortunately equivalent detail is not available from the Scottish 2011 census). "High-tech" i...


ncludes electronics and aircraft manufacture, but also cars, shipbuilding and making any kind of machinery. Here we break the numbers in each industry down by gender, but this is not possible with the 2011 data, only with the re-districted and re-classified historical statisics.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Aberdeen City City through time | Industry Statistics | Workers in Manufacturing, by sex, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 06th October 2024