Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	19	1
Textiles & clothing	41	20
Wood & paper	17	73
Chemicals	0	0
Low tech	18	0
High tech.	18	0
Other	3	0

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	23	1
Textiles & clothing	34	211
Wood & paper	7	0
Chemicals	2	0
Low tech	18	0
High tech.	9	0
Other	5	1

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	23	2
Textiles & clothing	29	142
Wood & paper	9	0
Chemicals	2	0
Low tech	32	0
High tech.	23	1
Other	12	3

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	49	23
Textiles & clothing	50	112
Wood & paper	35	24
Chemicals	18	9
Low tech	42	2
High tech.	45	1
Other	68	25

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	35	4
Textiles & clothing	33	81
Wood & paper	21	6
Chemicals	6	5
Low tech	50	1
High tech.	69	15
Other	234	27

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	26	4
Textiles & clothing	8	34
Wood & paper	13	1
Chemicals	10	10
Low tech	24	5
High tech.	788	99
Other	447	101

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	20	10
Textiles & clothing	38	140
Wood & paper	429	158
Chemicals	877	169
Low tech	265	381
High tech.	9,830	2,980
Other	642	789

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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