Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	2,482	93
Textiles & clothing	25,629	25,596
Wood & paper	1,655	128
Chemicals	293	77
Low tech	6,597	209
High tech.	3,730	16
Other	3,838	2,193

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	4,033	470
Textiles & clothing	26,868	44,710
Wood & paper	3,017	681
Chemicals	2,865	482
Low tech	18,719	690
High tech.	9,209	7
Other	4,945	4,797

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	4,751	2,083
Textiles & clothing	20,468	43,045
Wood & paper	3,961	2,057
Chemicals	1,936	453
Low tech	26,520	984
High tech.	21,107	163
Other	12,278	6,893

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	7,875	8,215
Textiles & clothing	17,004	39,454
Wood & paper	6,548	3,501
Chemicals	3,931	1,379
Low tech	36,936	1,914
High tech.	58,453	754
Other	14,518	7,096

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	14,513	13,914
Textiles & clothing	13,105	26,733
Wood & paper	7,830	2,855
Chemicals	5,993	2,474
Low tech	34,856	3,276
High tech.	65,932	3,675
Other	15,713	8,504

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	15,795	13,399
Textiles & clothing	10,792	28,705
Wood & paper	4,946	2,852
Chemicals	6,498	2,933
Low tech	20,712	3,560
High tech.	69,572	7,422
Other	15,864	8,236

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	14,002	9,516
Textiles & clothing	4,971	15,205
Wood & paper	4,125	1,671
Chemicals	3,600	1,741
Low tech	12,779	2,818
High tech.	39,977	6,240
Other	6,267	1,619

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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