Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

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Data for 1841 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 24 Show data context 1 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 55 Show data context 28 Show data context
Wood & paper 10 Show data context 5 Show data context
Chemicals 1 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 26 Show data context 1 Show data context
High tech. 20 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 6 Show data context 0 Show data context
Data for 1861 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 22 Show data context 1 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 25 Show data context 32 Show data context
Wood & paper 9 Show data context 0 Show data context
Chemicals 3 Show data context 2 Show data context
Low tech 45 Show data context 1 Show data context
High tech. 14 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 3 Show data context 0 Show data context
Data for 1881 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 10 Show data context 1 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 7 Show data context 13 Show data context
Wood & paper 8 Show data context 0 Show data context
Chemicals 1 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 71 Show data context 0 Show data context
High tech. 7 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 6 Show data context 1 Show data context
Data for 1911 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 57 Show data context 15 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 42 Show data context 89 Show data context
Wood & paper 17 Show data context 1 Show data context
Chemicals 14 Show data context 2 Show data context
Low tech 69 Show data context 0 Show data context
High tech. 76 Show data context 1 Show data context
Other 46 Show data context 3 Show data context
Data for 1931 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 106 Show data context 25 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 113 Show data context 103 Show data context
Wood & paper 94 Show data context 7 Show data context
Chemicals 53 Show data context 9 Show data context
Low tech 100 Show data context 6 Show data context
High tech. 174 Show data context 39 Show data context
Other 163 Show data context 18 Show data context
Data for 1951 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 80 Show data context 23 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 138 Show data context 666 Show data context
Wood & paper 68 Show data context 11 Show data context
Chemicals 44 Show data context 9 Show data context
Low tech 103 Show data context 7 Show data context
High tech. 310 Show data context 231 Show data context
Other 125 Show data context 40 Show data context
Data for 1971 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 298 Show data context 101 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 211 Show data context 200 Show data context
Wood & paper 284 Show data context 54 Show data context
Chemicals 342 Show data context 103 Show data context
Low tech 630 Show data context 70 Show data context
High tech. 1,583 Show data context 380 Show data context
Other 329 Show data context 125 Show data context
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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Our presentation of long-run trends in economic activity is based around the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification, but in that Manufacturing is treated as just one of twenty-one "Sections". Earlier classifications provide far more detail of manufacturing, so to present some of that detail in long-run perspective here we use a seven-way sub-classification of manufacturing used by the 2011 Census of England and Wales (unfortunately equivalent detail is not available from the Scottish 2011 census). "High-tech" i...


ncludes electronics and aircraft manufacture, but also cars, shipbuilding and making any kind of machinery. Here we break the numbers in each industry down by gender, but this is not possible with the 2011 data, only with the re-districted and re-classified historical statisics.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Castle Point District through time | Industry Statistics | Workers in Manufacturing, by sex, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 24th April 2024