GB Historical DB

Socio-Economic Group data from the 1971 Census for England and Wales

Table ID:
SEG_1971_EW     (1252953)
Contents:
Socio-Economic Group data from the 1971 Census for England and Wales
Approx. number of rows:
1,367
Table type:
Raw Data
Documentation Author:
Paula Aucott
Geography:
Reporting units are identified by:
   Administrative County
   Local Government District
   Local Government District Type
Chronology:
The data are for the single year 1971.

Sources:

  1. The data for England and Wales are taken from a separate 'Economic Activity Report' of the 1971 census, table 37, 'Males by area of usual residence and socio-economic class'. The National Totals were added in June 2017 by Paula Aucott from Table 37 of that report.
  2. This is a transcription of the original tables where the data was given as a 10 percent sample of the economically active male population above the age of 15.

Notes:

  1. The table covers the local government districts for the whole of England and Wales and was entered in Portsmouth in Spring and Autumn 2001.
  2. Those not included are the economically inactive who are classified as retired (over 65 and no longer working), housewives, students in educational establishments, those permanently sick, those not seeking or never have been employed, government trainees, au pairs and those who failed to answer the economic activity questions.
  3. When matching to Social Class anomalies are 'foremen' normally assigned to class IV or V would be placed in class III and 'managers' normally in class IV or V are also placed in class III (except groups 003, 004 and 006.) All other managers go into class II.
  4. This table was originally called seg_1971. It was amended in January 2010 to be seg_1971_ew to reflect more accurately the area covered by the content.

Checking:

  1. The data were checked to ensure the sum for each socio-economic section from G1 to G17 equalled the tot_m15.
  2. The data were checked to ensure the sum of columns G1_1_II to G1_1_IIIM and G1_2_II to G1_2_IIIM equalled the total for socio-economic group 1.
  3. The data were checked to ensure the sum of columns G2_1_II to G1_1_V and G2_2_II to G2_2_IIIM equalled the total for socio-economic group 2.
  4. The data were checked to ensure the sum of columns G5_1 and G5_2 equalled the total for socio-economic group 5.
  5. The data were checked to ensure the sum of columns G6_IIIN to G6_IV equalled the total for socio-economic group 6.
  6. The data were checked to ensure the sum of columns G7_II to G7_IV equalled the total for socio-economic group 7.
  7. The data were checked to ensure the sum of columns G12_II to G12_V equalled the total for socio-economic group 12.
  8. The data were checked to ensure the sum of columns G15_IIIM to G15_IV equalled the total for socio-economic group 15.
  9. The geographical units have been cross-checked against the GBHGIS administrative unit gazetteer to ensure that all units are correctly identified. The unit names and types have been standardised. Each unit has a unique unit ID assigned to it and this can be used to cross-reference against other data-sets.
  10. Those geographical unit names that did not matched straightforwardly during the cross-checking were double checked against the original tables to verify the transcription accuracy and corrections made accordingly.

Indices:

IndexTypeColumn(s) indexed
seg_1971_ew_pkey Primary key rec_num
seg_1971_ew_g_unit_idx Unique g_unit, rec_num
seg_1971_ew_idx Unique lg_dist, lg_type, adm_cnty, rec_num

Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

ConstraintTypeDetails
seg_1971_ew_pkey Primary Key See details above for primary key index


Columns within table:

ColumnTypeContents
adm_cnty Text string (max.len.=44). Name of Administrative County unit as it appeared in the original report.
lg_dist Text string (max.len.=64). Name of Local Government District unit as it appeared in the original report.
lg_type Text string (max.len.=16). Type of Local Government District.
cnty_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for county unit.
g_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for local government district unit.
tot_m15 Floating point number. Total Males (Occupied and Retired) aged 15 and over.
g1 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 1 'Employers and managers in central and local government, industry, commerce, etc. - large establishments.'
g1_1 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 1.1 'Employers in industry, commerce, etc. - large establishments.'
g1_1_ii Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 1_1_II: 'Employers in industry, commerce, etc. - large establishments. Intermediate occupations.'
g1_1_iiin Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 1_1_IIIN: 'Employers in industry, commerce, etc. - large establishments. Skilled occupations - Non-manual.'
g1_1_iiim Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 1_1_IIIM: 'Employers in industry, commerce, etc. - large establishments. Skilled occupations - Manual' (including small numbers of partly and unskilled people).
g1_2 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 1_2: 'Managers in central and local government, industry, commerce, etc. - large establishments.'
g1_2_ii Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 1_2_II: 'Managers in central and local government, industry, commerce, etc. - large establishments. Intermediate occupations.'
g1_2_iiin Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 1_2_IIIN: 'Managers in central and local government, industry, commerce, etc. - large establishments. Skilled occupations - Non-manual.'
g1_2_iiim Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 1_2_IIIM: 'Managers in central and local government, industry, commerce, etc. - large establishments. Skilled occupations - Manual.'
g2 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2: 'Employers and managers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments.'
g2_1 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2_1: 'Employers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments.'
g2_1_ii Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2_1_II: 'Employers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments. Intermediate occupations.'
g2_1_iiin Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2_1_IIIN 'Employers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments. Skilled occupations - Non-manual.'
g2_1_iiim Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2_1_IIIM 'Employers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments. Skilled occupations - Manual.'
g2_1_iv Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2_1_IV: 'Employers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments. Partly skilled occupations.'
g2_1_v Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2_1_V: 'Employers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments. Unskilled occupations.'
g2_2 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2_2: 'Managers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments.'
g2_2_ii Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2_2_II: 'Managers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments. Intermediate occupations.'
g2_2_iiin Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2_2_IIIN: 'Managers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments. Skilled occupations - Non-manual.'
g2_2_iiim Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 2_2_IIIM: 'Managers in industry, commerce, etc. - small establishments. Skilled occupations - Manual.'
g3 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 3: 'Professional workers - self-employed. Professional, etc., occupations.'
g4 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 4: 'Professional workers - employees. Professional, etc., occupations.'
g5 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 5: 'Intermediate non-manual workers.'
g5_1 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 5_1: 'Intermediate non-manual workers. Ancillary workers and artists. Intermediate occupations.'
g5_2 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 5_2: 'Intermediate non-manual workers. Foremen and supervisors - non-manual. Skilled occupations - Non-manual.'
g6 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 6: 'Junior non-manual workers.'
g6_iiin Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 6: 'Junior non-manual workers. Skilled occupations - Non-manual.'
g6_iv Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 6_IV: 'Junior non-manual workers. Partly skilled occupations.'
g7 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 7: 'Personal service workers.'
g7_ii Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 7_II: 'Personal service workers. Intermediate occupations.'
g7_iiin Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 7_IIIN: 'Personal service workers. Skilled occupations - Non-manual.'
g7_iiim Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 7_IIIM: 'Personal service workers. Skilled occupations - Manual.'
g7_iv Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 7_IV 'Personal service workers. Partly skilled occupations.'
g8 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 8 'Foremen and supervisors - Manual. Skilled occupations - Manual.'
g9 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 9 'Skilled manual workers. Skilled occupations - Manual.'
g10 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 10 'Semi-skilled manual workers. Partly skilled occupations.'
g11 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 11: 'Unskilled manual workers. Unskilled occupations.'
g12 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 12: 'Own account workers (other than professional).'
g12_ii Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 12_II: 'Own account workers (other than professional). Intermediate occupations.'
g12_iiin Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 12_IIIN: 'Own account workers (other than professional). Skilled occupations - Non-manual.'
g12_iiim Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 12_IIIM: 'Own account workers (other than professional). Skilled occupations - Manual.'
g12_iv Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 12_IV: 'Own account workers (other than professional). Partly skilled occupations.'
g12_v Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 12_V: 'Own account workers (other than professional). Unskilled occupations.'
g13 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 13: 'Farmers - employers and managers. Intermediate occupations.'
g14 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 14: 'Farmers - own account. Intermediate occupations.'
g15 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 15: 'Agricultural workers.'
g15_iiim Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 15_IIIM: 'Agricultural workers. Skilled occupations - Manual.'
g15_iv Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 15_IV: 'Agricultural workers. Partly skilled occupations.'
g16 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 16: 'Members of the armed forces.'
g17 Floating point number. Number of males aged 15 and over in socio-economic group 17: 'Inadequately described occupations.'
rec_num Integer number. Unique number identifying row in table.