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	16,604	14,944
Married women (included in Total)	0	5,050
Employers	611	205
Managers	1,442	479
Operatives	12,141	12,999
Working on own account	2,410	1,261
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	72	7
1. Agriculture and horticulture	67	7
II. Mining and quarrying	2	0
10. Coal mining	1	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	1	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	84	23
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	7	1
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	72	59
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	34	22
V. Metal manufacture	15	5
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	474	174
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	5	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	14	6
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	14	0
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	263	71
70. Electrical machinery	11	3
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	58	46
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	109	48
VII. Vehicles	744	90
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	66	5
81. Motor repairers and garages	570	54
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	91	27
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	142	40
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	192	99
X. Textiles	44	71
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	1
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	2
112. Woollen and worsted	8	14
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	3	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	7	20
123. Textile finishing, etc.	6	4
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	92	147
XII. Clothing	318	802
140. Tailoring	138	127
141. Dressmaking	43	483
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	97	36
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	221	153
150-162. Food	210	133
163-168. Drink	5	2
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	549	103
170. Timber	31	11
171. Furniture and upholstery	193	72
XV. Paper and printing	453	533
180. Paper and board	8	20
186,189. Printing and publishing	240	98
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	183	196
XVII. Building and contracting	2,611	118
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	418	52
210. Gas	107	41
211. Electricity	278	9
212. Water	33	2
XIX. Transport and communication	1,478	198
220. Railways	357	29
221,222. Road passenger transport	283	17
223. Goods transport by road	128	10
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	57	5
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	612	109
XX. Distributive trades	2,959	2,451
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	189	23
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	114	42
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	60	7
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	843	576
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	514	188
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	1,118	1,492
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	121	123
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	646	266
XXII. Public administration and defence	1,148	316
260. National government service	255	173
265. Local government service	893	143
XXIII. Professional services	1,990	3,263
271. Education	359	820
273. Medical and dental services	612	1,734
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	1,665	5,751
280,281. Entertainment and sport	448	383
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	480	1,574
286. Laundries	20	82
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	33	97
288. Hairdressing and manicure	102	164
290,291. Private domestic service	251	3,260
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	32	27

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