Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	6	1
Textiles & clothing	57	13
Wood & paper	3	0
Chemicals	2	0
Low tech	22	1
High tech.	10	0
Other	3	0

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	16	2
Textiles & clothing	81	65
Wood & paper	11	1
Chemicals	6	0
Low tech	213	3
High tech.	63	0
Other	11	1

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	105	34
Textiles & clothing	496	786
Wood & paper	98	19
Chemicals	70	2
Low tech	5,851	61
High tech.	1,673	7
Other	1,072	68

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	334	283
Textiles & clothing	544	1,234
Wood & paper	151	12
Chemicals	327	18
Low tech	11,322	12
High tech.	4,555	1
Other	1,583	101

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	595	531
Textiles & clothing	456	999
Wood & paper	204	11
Chemicals	1,823	85
Low tech	11,862	288
High tech.	1,339	50
Other	572	157

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	702	694
Textiles & clothing	534	3,164
Wood & paper	212	33
Chemicals	961	109
Low tech	10,945	826
High tech.	4,023	751
Other	673	295

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	363	522
Textiles & clothing	739	757
Wood & paper	269	108
Chemicals	7,243	671
Low tech	5,947	468
High tech.	3,543	676
Other	178	80

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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