Vision of Ireland | 1951 Census: Industry

1951 Census of England and Wales, Industry Tables (Laid before Parliament pursuant to Section 4 (1), Census Act, 1920), Table 3 : " Industries (Orders and Selected Units) and Status Aggregates. Occupied Males and Females aged 15 and over for Urban Areas with population of less than 50,000, RD, NT".

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INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	9,940	4,489
Married women (included in Total)	0	1,400
Employers	263	44
Managers	523	111
Operatives	8,643	4,185
Working on own account	511	149
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	468	116
1. Agriculture and horticulture	463	116
II. Mining and quarrying	76	7
10. Coal mining	30	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	46	7
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	72	3
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	5	0
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	35	3
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	18	1
V. Metal manufacture	38	5
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	276	36
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	7	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	1	0
56. Textile machinery and accessories	3	0
58. Constructional engineering	7	0
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	188	23
70. Electrical machinery	4	0
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	11	0
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	55	13
VII. Vehicles	617	86
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	79	21
81. Motor repairers and garages	526	63
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	5	2
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	43	1
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	37	5
X. Textiles	9	6
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	0
112. Woollen and worsted	1	0
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	1	1
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	142	12
XII. Clothing	71	35
140. Tailoring	18	10
141. Dressmaking	0	16
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	50	5
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	251	61
150-162. Food	197	51
163-168. Drink	53	10
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	88	26
170. Timber	31	0
171. Furniture and upholstery	20	21
XV. Paper and printing	95	37
180. Paper and board	2	2
186,189. Printing and publishing	91	35
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	15	4
XVII. Building and contracting	1,258	44
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	266	10
210. Gas	106	6
211. Electricity	116	4
212. Water	44	0
XIX. Transport and communication	1,330	353
220. Railways	160	5
221,222. Road passenger transport	271	55
223. Goods transport by road	211	17
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	8	0
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	668	274
XX. Distributive trades	1,540	1,177
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	176	37
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	85	3
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	194	54
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	356	241
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	164	31
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	515	764
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	50	47
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	261	170
XXII. Public administration and defence	1,759	235
260. National government service	1,335	143
265. Local government service	424	92
XXIII. Professional services	739	967
271. Education	255	298
273. Medical and dental services	238	536
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	447	1,084
280,281. Entertainment and sport	69	47
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	182	518
286. Laundries	13	49
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	18	45
288. Hairdressing and manicure	38	52
290,291. Private domestic service	64	339
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	7	6

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