Occupational categories appearing in occ_1881.

Table ID:

OCC_1881_CODEBOOK     (1251832)

Contents:

Occupational categories appearing in occ_1881.

Approx. number of rows:

417

Table type:

Codebook

Documentation Author:

Humphrey Southall

Chronology:

The data are for the single year 1881.

Sources:

1. The core of this table was supplied by Matthew Woollward in summer 2000, and derives from his long-term work on the 1881 microdata. The categories are those used in the published county-level table in the 1881 Reports, as held elsewhere in the database.

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Notes:

1. Additional occupational coding schemes were added by Paula Aucott in November 2002, based on the level 4 category titles, which are mostly sufficiently detailed to be treated as occupational titles.
2. Matching to the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification was added by Humphrey Southall in June 2015, and is inevitably more problematic than with mid-20th century data, particularly due to the number of occupations which both made and sold products, which tend to be coded as in manufacturing but clearly involved an element of retailing. Note that a number of general occupations are assigned to sic_division = 100, which is not part of SIC 2007 but has been added by us as a residual category.
3. An additional column, class_21_div, dividing Social Class 3 into manual and non-manual was added in March 2023 by Humphrey Southall. This replaces '3' by either '3_MAN' or '3_NM', and is otherwise identical to class_21, but the use of these codes means it becomes a character rather than numeric column. The division followed on from the similar re-coding of the 1931 occupation codebook, and was therefore based on the 1980 Occupational Classification, but very few occupations could be assigned to Class 3 non-manual as (a) Clerks were assigned to class 2 in the 1921 social classification and (b) Very many occupations were listed as "... Makers, Dealers", or similar, and based on Makers appearing first had to be assigned to Manual.

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Checking:

1. The only check was that all codes included in the 'occ_1881' and occ_1881_c tables were included here. This led to three additional rows being added, for code 415='Children under 5 years of age' (which appears in occ_1881_c), code 998='Occupation recorded but of unknown meaning' and code 999='Blank field, or illegible'.

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Acknowledgments:

We are extremely grateful to the following:

1. Matthew Woollard: This codebook was supplied to the database in summer 2000 by Matthew Woollard.
2. Hamish James: Clarification of two codes that were in the main data set but not in Matthew Woollard's list was supplied by Hamish James in September 2002.

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Indices:

Index	Type	Column(s) indexed
occ_1881_codebook_pkey	Primary key	occ_code

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Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

Constraint	Type	Details
occ_1881_codebook_pkey	Primary Key	See details above for primary key index

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Columns within table:

Column	Type	Contents
occ_code	Integer number.	A number simply placing each occupation in the order it appears in the master list. NB this is the value that appears in the main 1881 dataset derived from the microdata.
src_tab_row	Integer number.	Row number for use in table reconstructions within Vision of Britain. These are based on occ_code, but include gaps in the sequence enabling totals for the occupational orders and sub-orders to be included within the reconstructions. For example, values of occ_code from 1 to 8 have values of src_tab_row higher by one, enabling a total for "General/Local Government" to be inserted before; then occ_code values from 10 to 16 have values higher by two, enabling a total for "Defence of the country" to be inserted before them,
mw_code	Integer number.	Code number devised by Matthew Woollard, as supplied by him.
lev_1_id	Integer number.	Number identifying the top level of the original 1881 classification of occupations.
lev_1	Text string (max.len.=24).	Text describing the top level of the original 1881 classification of occupations.
lev_2_id	Integer number.	Number identifying the second level of the original 1881 classification of occupations.
lev_2	Text string (max.len.=61).	Text describing the second level in the original 1881 classification of occupations.
lev_2_s	Text string (max.len.=27).	A shorter version of the text describing the second level in the original 1881 classification of occupations.
lev_3	Text string (max.len.=50).	Text describing the third level in the original 1881 classification of occupations.
lev_4	Text string (max.len.=72).	Text describing the most detailed level in the original 1881 classification of occupations. In general, this specifies quite detailed occupations, such as 'Blacksmith'.
booth	Text string (max.len.=8).	The industrial sector as specified by the Booth-Armstrong classification.
order_21	Integer number.	The occupational order under the classification used by the 1921 census.
ord_21_rom	Text string (max.len.=10).	The occupational order under the classification used by the 1921 census, represented as a roman numeral.
group_21	Integer number.	The occupational group under the classification used by the 1921 census.
class_21	Integer number.	The social class under the 1921 occupational classification, as provided by Armstrong.
class_21_div	Text string (max.len.=10).	The social class under the 1921 occupational classification, but with social class 3 divided into manual and non-manual. As a result, note that this is a character values, not a number. See note above.
class_51	Integer number.	The social class under the 1951 occupational classification, as provided by Armstrong.
ind_sector	Text string (max.len.=8).	A simple six-way industrial classification, added to permit creation of data for the VisionOfBritain web site.
sic_query	Text string (max.len.=10).	This is a flag column which holds 'Q' if our assignment of the 1881 category to the 2007 SIC was seen as especially problematic; otherwise empty.
sic_division	Integer number.	Integer number identifying the 2007 SIC 'Division' to which we have assigned the 1931 group. These form a single sequence running from 1 to 99.
sic_division_name	Text string (max.len.=138).	Name of the 2007 SIC 'Division'. For example, 'AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING' is divided into (01) 'Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities', (02) 'Forestry and logging', and (03) 'Fishing and aquaculture'. Some Sections contain only one division.
notes	Long text.	Notes, mainly used to explain the basis for problematic allocations.