Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	108	21
Textiles & clothing	3,052	2,160
Wood & paper	127	37
Chemicals	36	4
Low tech	1,085	281
High tech.	305	1
Other	139	38

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	234	39
Textiles & clothing	2,156	2,888
Wood & paper	198	7
Chemicals	144	3
Low tech	1,768	65
High tech.	547	11
Other	206	32

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	328	44
Textiles & clothing	1,637	3,552
Wood & paper	288	20
Chemicals	292	2
Low tech	4,376	62
High tech.	620	4
Other	733	207

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	799	318
Textiles & clothing	3,030	5,415
Wood & paper	510	262
Chemicals	1,441	395
Low tech	8,989	399
High tech.	2,074	58
Other	1,144	204

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,415	535
Textiles & clothing	2,572	4,047
Wood & paper	365	590
Chemicals	2,907	1,021
Low tech	9,926	1,144
High tech.	1,935	277
Other	551	217

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,781	1,019
Textiles & clothing	2,691	3,721
Wood & paper	982	639
Chemicals	3,518	1,237
Low tech	11,471	3,290
High tech.	4,418	1,139
Other	589	322

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	2,478	1,257
Textiles & clothing	2,144	2,226
Wood & paper	2,538	711
Chemicals	3,974	804
Low tech	8,971	2,404
High tech.	6,575	1,141
Other	432	123

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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