Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

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Data for 1841 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 15 Show data context 1 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 39 Show data context 13 Show data context
Wood & paper 10 Show data context 0 Show data context
Chemicals 1 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 21 Show data context 0 Show data context
High tech. 16 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 4 Show data context 0 Show data context
Data for 1861 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 23 Show data context 2 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 35 Show data context 37 Show data context
Wood & paper 8 Show data context 0 Show data context
Chemicals 2 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 25 Show data context 0 Show data context
High tech. 8 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 4 Show data context 1 Show data context
Data for 1881 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 140 Show data context 14 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 187 Show data context 388 Show data context
Wood & paper 39 Show data context 6 Show data context
Chemicals 24 Show data context 1 Show data context
Low tech 192 Show data context 1 Show data context
High tech. 88 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 200 Show data context 33 Show data context
Data for 1911 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 335 Show data context 143 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 398 Show data context 1,122 Show data context
Wood & paper 67 Show data context 1 Show data context
Chemicals 86 Show data context 4 Show data context
Low tech 254 Show data context 1 Show data context
High tech. 400 Show data context 1 Show data context
Other 550 Show data context 59 Show data context
Data for 1931 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 366 Show data context 128 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 324 Show data context 406 Show data context
Wood & paper 85 Show data context 4 Show data context
Chemicals 43 Show data context 5 Show data context
Low tech 97 Show data context 2 Show data context
High tech. 608 Show data context 38 Show data context
Other 494 Show data context 61 Show data context
Data for 1951 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 340 Show data context 105 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 112 Show data context 195 Show data context
Wood & paper 59 Show data context 33 Show data context
Chemicals 20 Show data context 20 Show data context
Low tech 81 Show data context 0 Show data context
High tech. 245 Show data context 22 Show data context
Other 439 Show data context 100 Show data context
Data for 1971 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 741 Show data context 237 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 31 Show data context 218 Show data context
Wood & paper 91 Show data context 20 Show data context
Chemicals 239 Show data context 198 Show data context
Low tech 340 Show data context 40 Show data context
High tech. 1,006 Show data context 260 Show data context
Other 299 Show data context 90 Show data context
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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Our presentation of long-run trends in economic activity is based around the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification, but in that Manufacturing is treated as just one of twenty-one "Sections". Earlier classifications provide far more detail of manufacturing, so to present some of that detail in long-run perspective here we use a seven-way sub-classification of manufacturing used by the 2011 Census of England and Wales (unfortunately equivalent detail is not available from the Scottish 2011 census). "High-tech" i...


ncludes electronics and aircraft manufacture, but also cars, shipbuilding and making any kind of machinery. Here we break the numbers in each industry down by gender, but this is not possible with the 2011 data, only with the re-districted and re-classified historical statisics.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Eastbourne District through time | Industry Statistics | Workers in Manufacturing, by sex, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 23rd April 2024