Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	17	1
Textiles & clothing	41	86
Wood & paper	18	20
Chemicals	1	0
Low tech	20	0
High tech.	15	0
Other	11	0

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	29	2
Textiles & clothing	53	72
Wood & paper	21	7
Chemicals	3	0
Low tech	34	1
High tech.	17	0
Other	15	3

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	52	4
Textiles & clothing	62	114
Wood & paper	13	5
Chemicals	7	0
Low tech	129	1
High tech.	38	0
Other	44	8

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	162	53
Textiles & clothing	278	343
Wood & paper	159	41
Chemicals	33	6
Low tech	156	7
High tech.	348	2
Other	750	198

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	481	373
Textiles & clothing	289	273
Wood & paper	122	26
Chemicals	292	199
Low tech	460	109
High tech.	1,729	436
Other	514	196

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,800	1,310
Textiles & clothing	557	1,127
Wood & paper	1,126	761
Chemicals	2,498	1,417
Low tech	3,085	863
High tech.	6,029	1,558
Other	2,526	1,104

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	3,702	1,181
Textiles & clothing	1,034	1,046
Wood & paper	547	362
Chemicals	4,329	2,597
Low tech	3,332	1,067
High tech.	11,002	3,294
Other	865	460

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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