Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	17	1
Textiles & clothing	39	20
Wood & paper	7	6
Chemicals	1	0
Low tech	19	1
High tech.	15	0
Other	4	0

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	21	2
Textiles & clothing	27	32
Wood & paper	7	1
Chemicals	1	0
Low tech	19	0
High tech.	9	0
Other	3	0

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	24	2
Textiles & clothing	12	25
Wood & paper	3	1
Chemicals	1	0
Low tech	14	0
High tech.	12	0
Other	9	1

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	25	5
Textiles & clothing	15	33
Wood & paper	8	1
Chemicals	5	1
Low tech	31	0
High tech.	32	1
Other	14	1

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	32	3
Textiles & clothing	13	13
Wood & paper	16	1
Chemicals	10	3
Low tech	14	0
High tech.	47	2
Other	17	6

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	31	5
Textiles & clothing	7	39
Wood & paper	41	6
Chemicals	9	7
Low tech	26	3
High tech.	54	8
Other	34	13

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	619	753
Textiles & clothing	71	285
Wood & paper	327	186
Chemicals	1,151	627
Low tech	2,764	323
High tech.	6,467	3,755
Other	962	353

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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