Simplified Industrial Structure

Year	Agriculture	Mining	Manufacturing	Util+Const+Transp	Consumer Services	Business Services	Public Services
1841	1,681	3	649	376	1,267	146	186
1861	1,993	3	1,655	895	2,658	377	533
1881	2,423	20	3,667	3,909	11,122	1,771	1,489
1911	4,003	193	11,031	8,270	20,044	3,061	6,003
1931	2,230	80	14,759	14,642	33,032	6,744	8,817
1951	1,184	15	19,881	15,002	23,588	2,482	13,847
1971	810	20	17,800	15,480	23,050	8,820	20,580
1991	600	200	9,227	14,724	25,178	19,955	20,845
2011	175	37	4,003	17,059	29,919	27,309	32,903

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'
1881 - 2011	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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