Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

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Data for 1841 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 11 Show data context 1 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 29 Show data context 10 Show data context
Wood & paper 8 Show data context 0 Show data context
Chemicals 1 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 15 Show data context 0 Show data context
High tech. 12 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 3 Show data context 0 Show data context
Data for 1861 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 30 Show data context 5 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 48 Show data context 71 Show data context
Wood & paper 14 Show data context 0 Show data context
Chemicals 3 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 25 Show data context 0 Show data context
High tech. 22 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 11 Show data context 1 Show data context
Data for 1881 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 88 Show data context 13 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 110 Show data context 216 Show data context
Wood & paper 11 Show data context 4 Show data context
Chemicals 10 Show data context 2 Show data context
Low tech 116 Show data context 2 Show data context
High tech. 64 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 67 Show data context 14 Show data context
Data for 1911 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 246 Show data context 149 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 241 Show data context 773 Show data context
Wood & paper 77 Show data context 2 Show data context
Chemicals 49 Show data context 4 Show data context
Low tech 215 Show data context 3 Show data context
High tech. 225 Show data context 1 Show data context
Other 224 Show data context 24 Show data context
Data for 1931 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 252 Show data context 99 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 185 Show data context 235 Show data context
Wood & paper 102 Show data context 5 Show data context
Chemicals 28 Show data context 4 Show data context
Low tech 104 Show data context 5 Show data context
High tech. 433 Show data context 34 Show data context
Other 250 Show data context 51 Show data context
Data for 1951 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 325 Show data context 154 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 84 Show data context 360 Show data context
Wood & paper 117 Show data context 20 Show data context
Chemicals 39 Show data context 18 Show data context
Low tech 133 Show data context 23 Show data context
High tech. 240 Show data context 33 Show data context
Other 404 Show data context 117 Show data context
Data for 1971 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 384 Show data context 115 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 48 Show data context 384 Show data context
Wood & paper 212 Show data context 58 Show data context
Chemicals 949 Show data context 700 Show data context
Low tech 185 Show data context 48 Show data context
High tech. 572 Show data context 212 Show data context
Other 145 Show data context 96 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, Worthing District through time | Industry Statistics | Workers in Manufacturing, by sex, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 24th April 2024