GB Historical DB

Socio-Economic Group data from the 1971 Census for Scotland

Table ID:
SEG_1971_S     (1252967)
Contents:
Socio-Economic Group data from the 1971 Census for Scotland
Approx. number of rows:
411
Table type:
Raw Data
Documentation Author:
Paula Aucott
Chronology:
The data are for the single year 1971.

Sources:

  1. The data for Scotland are taken from parts I-IV 'Economic Activity, County Tables' of the 1971 Scottish census, table 4, 'Males by area of usual residence and socio-economic class' for 'Planning sub-regions, cities, counties, local authority areas, new towns.' This is a transcription of the original tables, although overall county, aggregates of burghs and aggregates of districts of county figures have not been included as these are easily computed. The exception are the additional derived columns restating numbers in each class as a total sum which we have added to the table.
  2. The National Totals were added in June 2017 by Paula Aucott from Table 37, 'Males by area of usual residence and socio-economic class' in 'Great Britain, England and Wales, Scotland, regions, conurbations, counties, local authority areas' (10% sample) from the 1971 Census of Great Britain volume Economic Activity, Part V (10% sample)
  3. Need to double check if main data is sample 10% like England and Wales - not mentioned in documentation currently so assumed not.

Notes:

  1. The table covers the district-level units of Scotland and was entered by Rachel Granville in Portsmouth in Spring 2002.
  2. Anomalies in the social class groupings are 'foremen' normally assigned to class IV or V are 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.
  3. The data covers Cities, Burghs, Districts of County, Landwards and New Towns as indicated by area_type:
    • CT: City (4 areas): Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow
    • LB: Large Burgh (21 areas): These match those listed in the 1951 Industry Table
    • SB: Small Burgh (180 areas)
    • DC: District of County (198 areas)
    • LW: Landward (2 areas): These are for Nairn and Kinross, very small counties not divided into Districts of County
    • NT: New Town (5 areas): Cumbernauld, East Kilbride, Glenrothes, Irvine and Livingston
    N.B. Landwards (apart from Kinross and Nairn), Counties and Wards are not listed.
  4. County Totals can be derived by summing together Districts of county, small and large burghs and Landwards grouped by county to get county totals.
  5. This table was renamed from "soc_1971_s" to be "seg_1971_s" in January 2017 to more accurately reflect its 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. Each unit has a unique unit ID assigned to it and this can be used to cross-reference against other data-sets. Names currently not matched and needing to be checked are as follows:
    • DoC - Cumnock and Holmhead, Ayrshire.
    • New Towns - Glenrothes given in West Lothian but in Fife in AUO
    • - Cumbernauld given in Renfrew but in Dunbarton in AUO
    • - East Kilbride given in Renfrew but in Lanark in AUO
    • - Irvine given in Renfrew but in Ayr in AUO

Indices:

IndexTypeColumn(s) indexed
seg_1971_s_pkey Primary key rec_num
seg_1971_s_idx Unique sco_cnty, sco_area, sco_type, pt, tot_m15

Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

ConstraintTypeDetails
seg_1971_s_pkey Primary Key See details above for primary key index


Columns within table:

ColumnTypeContents
sco_cnty Text string (max.len.=44). Name of Scottish County unit containing the district as it appeared in the original report.
sco_area Text string (max.len.=104). Name of Scottish District unit as it appeared in the original report, i.e. lower case.
sco_type Text string (max.len.=24). Type of District as it appeared in the original report; 'SBU' for Small Burgh, 'LBU' for large Burgh, 'DC' for District of County and 'CT' for city.
cnty_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for container unit, usually a county, but sometimes Scotland where the unit is a city or county.
g_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for unit.
pt Text string (max.len.=7). 'PT' indicates units where the figures are included in aggregate totals other than those expected, see the relevant note for further details.
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.'
notes Text string (max.len.=1004). Comments.
rec_num Integer number. Unique number identifying row in table.