Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	11	1
Textiles & clothing	81	57
Wood & paper	9	0
Chemicals	0	0
Low tech	56	6
High tech.	16	0
Other	7	0

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	14	1
Textiles & clothing	58	75
Wood & paper	11	1
Chemicals	3	0
Low tech	33	1
High tech.	9	0
Other	6	1

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	54	7
Textiles & clothing	213	634
Wood & paper	79	41
Chemicals	21	6
Low tech	276	30
High tech.	55	1
Other	96	33

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	100	25
Textiles & clothing	221	414
Wood & paper	44	18
Chemicals	24	3
Low tech	1,003	215
High tech.	318	15
Other	135	4

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	79	31
Textiles & clothing	139	643
Wood & paper	157	74
Chemicals	5	8
Low tech	763	148
High tech.	162	13
Other	230	69

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	96	24
Textiles & clothing	167	752
Wood & paper	321	105
Chemicals	18	8
Low tech	952	225
High tech.	311	46
Other	56	20

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	262	64
Textiles & clothing	400	293
Wood & paper	209	37
Chemicals	497	134
Low tech	1,238	212
High tech.	1,816	272
Other	46	10

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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