Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	28	3
Textiles & clothing	251	59
Wood & paper	13	1
Chemicals	11	0
Low tech	95	6
High tech.	45	0
Other	14	1

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	36	2
Textiles & clothing	208	221
Wood & paper	14	0
Chemicals	8	0
Low tech	330	4
High tech.	55	0
Other	19	1

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	55	14
Textiles & clothing	399	651
Wood & paper	31	6
Chemicals	39	0
Low tech	3,056	18
High tech.	334	2
Other	611	20

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	331	223
Textiles & clothing	635	1,040
Wood & paper	123	15
Chemicals	143	8
Low tech	4,857	9
High tech.	2,083	1
Other	942	47

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	276	203
Textiles & clothing	208	209
Wood & paper	113	1
Chemicals	378	16
Low tech	9,035	172
High tech.	1,053	29
Other	163	27

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	375	254
Textiles & clothing	175	864
Wood & paper	114	23
Chemicals	3,005	262
Low tech	16,747	787
High tech.	3,899	239
Other	180	82

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	773	808
Textiles & clothing	1,111	1,125
Wood & paper	496	153
Chemicals	9,833	912
Low tech	8,612	658
High tech.	5,621	996
Other	298	116

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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