Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	20	4
Textiles & clothing	939	686
Wood & paper	30	2
Chemicals	5	0
Low tech	113	2
High tech.	72	1
Other	32	9

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	54	11
Textiles & clothing	241	231
Wood & paper	50	0
Chemicals	240	1
Low tech	471	46
High tech.	295	1
Other	41	5

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	98	48
Textiles & clothing	449	523
Wood & paper	328	15
Chemicals	3,061	19
Low tech	723	7
High tech.	587	1
Other	388	16

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	262	220
Textiles & clothing	4,169	4,817
Wood & paper	219	70
Chemicals	566	59
Low tech	1,106	30
High tech.	1,385	36
Other	522	49

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	323	221
Textiles & clothing	1,079	347
Wood & paper	157	98
Chemicals	4,974	505
Low tech	1,858	453
High tech.	726	343
Other	120	114

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	301	240
Textiles & clothing	1,027	542
Wood & paper	532	410
Chemicals	10,962	1,627
Low tech	3,575	846
High tech.	888	193
Other	366	250

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	681	538
Textiles & clothing	645	819
Wood & paper	949	380
Chemicals	5,439	1,099
Low tech	3,056	594
High tech.	2,116	500
Other	265	56

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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