Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	710	54
Textiles & clothing	13,944	9,375
Wood & paper	851	53
Chemicals	109	4
Low tech	4,853	206
High tech.	1,439	11
Other	488	164

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,689	130
Textiles & clothing	16,964	18,009
Wood & paper	1,315	140
Chemicals	423	22
Low tech	6,562	140
High tech.	2,078	45
Other	632	79

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,142	173
Textiles & clothing	9,758	14,280
Wood & paper	860	289
Chemicals	560	57
Low tech	7,551	406
High tech.	2,641	19
Other	3,129	411

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,958	857
Textiles & clothing	15,015	20,242
Wood & paper	1,456	647
Chemicals	1,190	81
Low tech	14,675	1,197
High tech.	7,185	61
Other	4,537	205

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	2,777	1,077
Textiles & clothing	15,134	20,036
Wood & paper	1,883	1,157
Chemicals	1,927	469
Low tech	19,881	2,137
High tech.	6,040	538
Other	2,494	1,071

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	3,163	1,982
Textiles & clothing	13,915	18,536
Wood & paper	1,798	956
Chemicals	3,536	877
Low tech	23,337	3,993
High tech.	10,252	1,682
Other	2,331	1,230

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	3,101	1,809
Textiles & clothing	11,047	8,629
Wood & paper	3,670	863
Chemicals	6,703	2,333
Low tech	26,211	3,629
High tech.	15,439	2,442
Other	2,020	673

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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