DDS Entity Definition: T_SOC

Name:

Social Structure

Identifier:

T_SOC

Type:

Theme (T)

Text:

The first census in 1801 simply divided people into those employed in agriculture and those in trade or manufacturing, and the 1841 census, the first to gather detailed occupational data, imposed no real order on it at all. However, the first occupational classification, introduced in 1851, was clearly concerned with social status as well as with what people made: it began with the Queen, followed by government officials and then by 'the learned professions'.

In the twentieth century a separate system of social classes was devised. Originally created to help understand mortality, the Registrar General's Social Classification was tabulated by the census from 1951 onwards. To provide a longer perspective we have re-organised earlier occupational information to the same system. Like the published 1951 data, all our figures are limited to men.

This is only possible where we have very detailed occupational statistics at district-level, so these earlier censuses are limited to 1841, where the replies to the occupational question were tabulated almost raw; 1881, where we can use complete data from the enumerator's books; and 1931, which produced the most detailed of all occupational reports. The 2001 data are based on a rather different system, so comparisons over time are tricky.

Theme "T_SOC" is contained within:

Databases:

Entity ID	Entity Name
DB	VoB Database

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Theme "T_SOC" contains:

Rates :

Entity ID	Entity Name
R_RGSOC_12	Percentage of Working-Age Males in Class 1 & 2
R_RGSOC_3	Percentage of Working-Age Males in Class 3
R_RGSOC_45	Percentage of Working-Age Males in Class 4 & 5
R_SOC_EMP_1831	Employers & "Educated Men" (1831 definition)
R_SOC_MID_1831	"Middling Sorts" (1831 definition)
R_SOC_LAB_1831	Labourers & Servants (1831 definition)

nCubes :

Entity ID	Entity Name
N_SOC_GEN	Social Class
N_RGSOC_TOT_M	Social Class Total
N_RGSOC_GROUP	Grouped Social Class
N_SOC1831	Social Status, based on 1831 occupational statistics
N_SEG_M	Socio-Economic Group (males only)
N_SEG_M_TOT	Socio-Econmic Groups Total (males only)
N_SEG1971_M	Socio-Economic Group (males only)

Variables :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_RGSOC	Registrar General's Social Class
V_RGSOC_TOT	Registrar General's Social Class
V_RGSOC_GROUP	Registrar General's Social Class, grouped
V_SOC1831	1831 Occupations grouped by Status
V_SEG	Socio-Economic Groups
V_SEG_TOT	Total of all Socio-Economic Groups
V_SEG1971	Socio-Economic Groups, with sub-groups