Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

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Data for 1841 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 160 Show data context 8 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 531 Show data context 259 Show data context
Wood & paper 94 Show data context 1 Show data context
Chemicals 4 Show data context 2 Show data context
Low tech 232 Show data context 3 Show data context
High tech. 176 Show data context 2 Show data context
Other 170 Show data context 10 Show data context
Data for 1861 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 21 Show data context 1 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 45 Show data context 51 Show data context
Wood & paper 6 Show data context 0 Show data context
Chemicals 3 Show data context 0 Show data context
Low tech 38 Show data context 0 Show data context
High tech. 33 Show data context 0 Show data context
Other 10 Show data context 1 Show data context
Data for 1881 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 343 Show data context 25 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 558 Show data context 861 Show data context
Wood & paper 88 Show data context 2 Show data context
Chemicals 89 Show data context 11 Show data context
Low tech 1,468 Show data context 9 Show data context
High tech. 1,121 Show data context 4 Show data context
Other 523 Show data context 44 Show data context
Data for 1911 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 422 Show data context 264 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 636 Show data context 898 Show data context
Wood & paper 242 Show data context 10 Show data context
Chemicals 266 Show data context 50 Show data context
Low tech 3,584 Show data context 18 Show data context
High tech. 4,671 Show data context 19 Show data context
Other 644 Show data context 61 Show data context
Data for 1931 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 589 Show data context 370 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 261 Show data context 323 Show data context
Wood & paper 299 Show data context 12 Show data context
Chemicals 216 Show data context 75 Show data context
Low tech 1,338 Show data context 95 Show data context
High tech. 5,392 Show data context 423 Show data context
Other 411 Show data context 120 Show data context
Data for 1951 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 550 Show data context 378 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 179 Show data context 417 Show data context
Wood & paper 417 Show data context 97 Show data context
Chemicals 337 Show data context 144 Show data context
Low tech 935 Show data context 44 Show data context
High tech. 9,083 Show data context 1,293 Show data context
Other 368 Show data context 141 Show data context
Data for 1971 Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing Male Female
Food & drink 750 Show data context 378 Show data context
Textiles & clothing 177 Show data context 189 Show data context
Wood & paper 227 Show data context 29 Show data context
Chemicals 309 Show data context 329 Show data context
Low tech 1,209 Show data context 116 Show data context
High tech. 8,789 Show data context 1,275 Show data context
Other 262 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, Lincoln District through time | Industry Statistics | Workers in Manufacturing, by sex, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 25th April 2024