Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	20	7
Textiles & clothing	1,455	1,052
Wood & paper	35	4
Chemicals	10	0
Low tech	172	5
High tech.	98	1
Other	55	23

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	203	41
Textiles & clothing	723	878
Wood & paper	160	2
Chemicals	406	4
Low tech	1,133	92
High tech.	1,021	4
Other	188	28

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	119	30
Textiles & clothing	194	337
Wood & paper	34	8
Chemicals	95	1
Low tech	649	30
High tech.	552	25
Other	188	21

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	151	155
Textiles & clothing	1,890	2,449
Wood & paper	135	45
Chemicals	177	36
Low tech	457	22
High tech.	557	16
Other	286	42

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	719	518
Textiles & clothing	302	430
Wood & paper	148	123
Chemicals	300	131
Low tech	800	150
High tech.	2,962	606
Other	449	213

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	693	613
Textiles & clothing	209	573
Wood & paper	239	264
Chemicals	774	368
Low tech	1,443	284
High tech.	7,689	2,341
Other	908	565

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	3,191	3,842
Textiles & clothing	1,779	1,211
Wood & paper	1,277	518
Chemicals	2,542	695
Low tech	4,395	667
High tech.	11,252	4,003
Other	2,047	453

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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