1931 Census of England and Wales, Industry Tables, Table 3 : " Industries (condensed list) of Males and Females (exclusive of persons out of work)".

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INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
Total in Industries (excluding persons out of work).	10,853,821	4,932,459
Out of work (not included below).	1,520,840	467,445
I.--Fishing.	30,548	1,372
II.--Agriculture.	822,991	47,464
III.--Mining and Quarrying, and Treatment of Non-Metalliferous Mining and Quarry Products.      1. Mining and Quarrying.	722,133	6,004
2. Treatment of Non-Metalliferous Mine and Quarry Products (excluding Gas Works).	43,548	2,637
IV.--Manufacture of Bricks, Pottery, Glass, etc.	131,487	48,910
V.--Manufacture of Chemicals, Dyes, Explosives, Paints, Oils, Grease.      1, 2. Chemicals and Explosives.	70,825	25,350
3. White Lead, Paints, and Varnish.	19,846	4,912
4, 5. Greases, Glue, &c.	48,769	19,396
VI.--Manufacture of Metals, Machines, Implements, Conveyances, Jewellery, Watches.      1. Smelting Converting, Refining, and Rolling of Iron and Steel.	106,866	3,577
2. Extracting and Refining of Other Metals and Alloys.	8,775	1,050
3. Founding and Other Secondary Processes in Metal Working.	158,028	17,037
4. Engineering (not Marine or Electrical).	343,286	32,486
5. Electrical Installations, Cables, and Apparatus.	171,538	60,903
6. Construction and Repair of Vehicles.	284,927	35,765
7. Ship Building and Repairing and Marine Engineering.	111,327	2,773
8. Cutlery and Small Tools (not Machine Tools).	28,660	13,349
9. Other Metal Industries (not Precious Metals, Jewellery, or Plate).	187,045	71,530
10. Precious Metals, Jewellery, Plate.	30,758	14,732
VII.--Manufacture of Textiles and Textile Goods (not Dress); Cellulose.      1. Cotton.	162,007	261,363
2. Wool, Worsted, and Shoddy.	86,956	112,971
3. Silk, Natural and Artificial.	23,705	31,059
4. Flax, Hemp, Jute.	1,137	1,140
5, 6. Mixed Fibres and Miscellaneous Products.	61,937	126,951
7. Textile Dyeing, Printing, Bleaching, Calendering, Finishing.	69,676	19,426
VIII.--Preparation of Skins and Leather, and Manufacture of Goods of Leather and Leather Substitute (not Clothing or Footwear).      1. Furs, Skins, Leather.	33,345	10,560
2. Saddlery, Harness, Bags, Trunks, and Other Goods of Leather and Leather Substitute (not Clothing or Footwear).	16,394	13,141
IX.--Manufacture of Clothing (not Knitted).	282,827	479,132
X.--Manufacture of Food, Drink, Tobacco.      1. Food.	238,760	155,931
2. Drink.	82,176	16,782
3. Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, Snuff.	17,563	28,944
XI.--Wood Working; Manufacture of Cane and Basket Ware, Furniture, Fittings (not elsewhere enumerated).      1. Wood Working and Basket Ware.	86,689	6,414
2. Furniture (not Metal or Basket); Fittings.	118,059	21,175
XII.--Paper Making; Manufacture of Stationery and Stationery Requisites; Printing, Bookbinding, and Photography.	265,288	138,876
XIII.-- Building, Decorating, Stone and Slate Gutting and Dressing, and Contracting.	806,331	10,135
XIV.--Other Manufacturing Industries.      1. Rubber.	29,378	15,722
2. Musical Instruments.	21,297	5,788
3. Other Manufacturing Industries.	67,484	43,873
XV.--Gas, Water, Electricity.      510-6. Gas Works Service.	103,131	3,273
518-21. Water Works Service.	25,713	603
523-9. Electricity Supply Service.	67,291	2,727
XVI.--Transport and Communication.      1. Railways.	427,034	13,315
2. Road.	383,068	13,077
3-7. Water, Air and Other Transport and Communication.	228,524	10,730
XVII.--Commerce and Finance.      600-670. Distributive Trades.	1,571,714	714,049
680-699. Other Commerce and Finance.	272,609	82,635
XVIII.--Public Administration and Defence.      1. Defence.	225,922	5,896
2. Central Civil Government (British and Imperial).	225,751	75,381
3. Local Government.	523,578	251,249
XIX.--Professions.	278,533	261,769
XX.--Entertainments and Sport.	96,699	46,115
XXI.--Personal Service (including Hotels and Catering, but excluding Government and Local Authority).	602,917	1,535,418
XXII.--Other Industries or Industry not stated.	28,971	7,592

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Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	The areal classification is by each person's area of enumeration and not necessarily, therefore, by area of business.

This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.

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