Simplified Industrial Structure

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Year Agriculture Mining Manufacturing Util+Const+Transp Consumer Services Business Services Public Services
1841 716 Show data context 232 Show data context 5,100 Show data context 490 Show data context 1,013 Show data context 110 Show data context 113 Show data context
1861 2,130 Show data context 119 Show data context 9,985 Show data context 1,099 Show data context 2,250 Show data context 332 Show data context 478 Show data context
1881 1,427 Show data context 4 Show data context 5,562 Show data context 624 Show data context 1,305 Show data context 141 Show data context 162 Show data context
1911 1,516 Show data context 1,248 Show data context 8,076 Show data context 1,559 Show data context 2,573 Show data context 556 Show data context 585 Show data context
1931 2,205 Show data context 35 Show data context 9,474 Show data context 1,777 Show data context 2,743 Show data context 279 Show data context 1,168 Show data context
1951 2,146 Show data context 32 Show data context 17,538 Show data context 2,605 Show data context 3,296 Show data context 179 Show data context 2,507 Show data context
1971 719 Show data context 466 Show data context 13,109 Show data context 3,821 Show data context 4,926 Show data context 1,120 Show data context 3,878 Show data context
1991 940 Show data context 0 Show data context 13,720 Show data context 5,106 Show data context 9,307 Show data context 3,036 Show data context 7,018 Show data context
2011 395 Show data context 6 Show data context 7,034 Show data context 8,934 Show data context 12,844 Show data context 7,316 Show data context 12,540 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'
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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This classification of industry is that used by the 2011 Census, and forms the basic for our standardisation of historical information on industrial structure. The modern data are a classification of workers by their employers' business and count them by their place of work. However, before 1951 they are counted by place of residence, and before 1921 workers have to be classified by their individual occupations. Here we break the numbers in each industry down by gender, but this is not possible with the 2011 dat...


a, only with the re-districted and re-classified historical statisics.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, South Ribble District through time | Industry Statistics | Simplified Industrial Structure, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 05th November 2024