Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	189	34
Textiles & clothing	5,619	2,219
Wood & paper	204	45
Chemicals	32	0
Low tech	957	20
High tech.	609	2
Other	544	199

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	240	12
Textiles & clothing	915	823
Wood & paper	143	1
Chemicals	49	1
Low tech	747	11
High tech.	610	2
Other	181	15

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	226	42
Textiles & clothing	610	777
Wood & paper	140	5
Chemicals	54	10
Low tech	1,343	52
High tech.	1,200	7
Other	591	61

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	404	278
Textiles & clothing	6,172	6,592
Wood & paper	334	65
Chemicals	365	24
Low tech	2,562	81
High tech.	2,067	18
Other	1,052	49

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	857	798
Textiles & clothing	785	596
Wood & paper	277	77
Chemicals	242	100
Low tech	3,381	710
High tech.	5,277	100
Other	530	90

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,414	1,031
Textiles & clothing	1,374	2,756
Wood & paper	427	188
Chemicals	619	372
Low tech	5,481	1,583
High tech.	10,136	1,991
Other	651	202

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,861	926
Textiles & clothing	8,588	3,487
Wood & paper	1,129	182
Chemicals	1,976	407
Low tech	9,210	1,813
High tech.	13,322	2,140
Other	820	238

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'

This website exists to help people doing personal research projects on particular areas within a locality. So long as you are using our data for only a small number of units, you are not making money out of what you are doing, and you are not systematically re-publishing our data, you do not need to request permission from us, but you do need to acknowledge us as your source with the wording:

"This work is based on data provided through www.VisionofBritain.org.uk and uses historical material which is copyright of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project and the University of Portsmouth".

Where the above statement is included in a web page or similar online resource, the reference to "www.VisionofBritain.org.uk" must be a working hyperlink.

nCube definition