Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	61	19
Textiles & clothing	4,116	3,064
Wood & paper	84	21
Chemicals	26	2
Low tech	501	7
High tech.	249	3
Other	203	175

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	185	46
Textiles & clothing	4,418	6,579
Wood & paper	142	8
Chemicals	133	5
Low tech	1,655	51
High tech.	438	16
Other	139	9

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	421	123
Textiles & clothing	4,055	14,515
Wood & paper	294	64
Chemicals	194	10
Low tech	3,427	85
High tech.	1,213	29
Other	1,831	369

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,087	1,148
Textiles & clothing	17,998	28,368
Wood & paper	854	225
Chemicals	1,195	184
Low tech	5,022	117
High tech.	5,292	135
Other	2,521	220

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,301	1,336
Textiles & clothing	7,435	20,819
Wood & paper	327	111
Chemicals	556	495
Low tech	3,147	619
High tech.	4,054	392
Other	748	170

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,757	1,643
Textiles & clothing	8,407	17,951
Wood & paper	308	303
Chemicals	1,291	570
Low tech	2,852	1,049
High tech.	6,070	2,219
Other	1,112	316

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	3,955	1,313
Textiles & clothing	5,728	5,174
Wood & paper	2,269	362
Chemicals	4,329	1,112
Low tech	3,999	486
High tech.	13,097	3,079
Other	1,106	228

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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