Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

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Data for 1841 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 330 Show data context 18 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 1,044 Show data context 533 Show data context
Wood & paper 210 Show data context 7 Show data context
Chemicals 8 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 345 Show data context 2 Show data context
High tech. 240 Show data context 2 Show data context
Other 122 Show data context 5 Show data context
Data for 1861 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 355 Show data context 24 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 1,069 Show data context 1,936 Show data context
Wood & paper 210 Show data context 13 Show data context
Chemicals 19 Show data context 2 Show data context
Low tech 284 Show data context 4 Show data context
High tech. 126 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 64 Show data context 9 Show data context
Data for 1881 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 306 Show data context 17 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 770 Show data context 2,121 Show data context
Wood & paper 121 Show data context 44 Show data context
Chemicals 10 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 214 Show data context 5 Show data context
High tech. 103 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 167 Show data context 31 Show data context
Data for 1911 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 362 Show data context 76 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 425 Show data context 857 Show data context
Wood & paper 182 Show data context 47 Show data context
Chemicals 18 Show data context 2 Show data context
Low tech 334 Show data context 5 Show data context
High tech. 304 Show data context 1 Show data context
Other 299 Show data context 22 Show data context
Data for 1931 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 353 Show data context 36 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 884 Show data context 1,014 Show data context
Wood & paper 117 Show data context 7 Show data context
Chemicals 7 Show data context 2 Show data context
Low tech 270 Show data context 3 Show data context
High tech. 518 Show data context 18 Show data context
Other 157 Show data context 12 Show data context
Data for 1951 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 297 Show data context 53 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 889 Show data context 1,012 Show data context
Wood & paper 112 Show data context 4 Show data context
Chemicals 15 Show data context 20 Show data context
Low tech 126 Show data context 3 Show data context
High tech. 903 Show data context 183 Show data context
Other 181 Show data context 93 Show data context
Data for 1971 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 492 Show data context 134 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 223 Show data context 193 Show data context
Wood & paper 210 Show data context 25 Show data context
Chemicals 127 Show data context 27 Show data context
Low tech 776 Show data context 94 Show data context
High tech. 1,774 Show data context 245 Show data context
Other 263 Show data context 94 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, West Oxfordshire District through time | Industry Statistics | Workers in Manufacturing, by sex, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 05th May 2024