Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

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Data for 1841 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 279 Show data context 32 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 1,477 Show data context 512 Show data context
Wood & paper 304 Show data context 2 Show data context
Chemicals 3 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 375 Show data context 2 Show data context
High tech. 296 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 98 Show data context 0 Show data context
Data for 1861 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 424 Show data context 42 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 1,435 Show data context 1,375 Show data context
Wood & paper 356 Show data context 3 Show data context
Chemicals 48 Show data context 1 Show data context
Low tech 496 Show data context 1 Show data context
High tech. 351 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 161 Show data context 7 Show data context
Data for 1881 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 589 Show data context 33 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 1,477 Show data context 1,076 Show data context
Wood & paper 282 Show data context 6 Show data context
Chemicals 60 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 482 Show data context 5 Show data context
High tech. 356 Show data context 1 Show data context
Other 260 Show data context 22 Show data context
Data for 1911 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 854 Show data context 536 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 1,173 Show data context 1,186 Show data context
Wood & paper 459 Show data context 2 Show data context
Chemicals 130 Show data context 10 Show data context
Low tech 391 Show data context 3 Show data context
High tech. 449 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 390 Show data context 19 Show data context
Data for 1931 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 1,341 Show data context 570 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 745 Show data context 586 Show data context
Wood & paper 511 Show data context 9 Show data context
Chemicals 41 Show data context 6 Show data context
Low tech 317 Show data context 6 Show data context
High tech. 518 Show data context 23 Show data context
Other 237 Show data context 30 Show data context
Data for 1951 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 1,411 Show data context 270 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 368 Show data context 441 Show data context
Wood & paper 748 Show data context 19 Show data context
Chemicals 49 Show data context 13 Show data context
Low tech 216 Show data context 5 Show data context
High tech. 467 Show data context 27 Show data context
Other 170 Show data context 38 Show data context
Data for 1971 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 1,864 Show data context 767 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 389 Show data context 378 Show data context
Wood & paper 583 Show data context 19 Show data context
Chemicals 60 Show data context 19 Show data context
Low tech 229 Show data context 25 Show data context
High tech. 724 Show data context 288 Show data context
Other 54 Show data context 31 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, Moray District through time | Industry Statistics | Workers in Manufacturing, by sex, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 25th April 2024