West Dunbartonshire Council : NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way)

NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way)

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NS Socio-economic Classfication (15 way) 2001 2011 2021
Employers in large establishments 126 Show data context 789 Show data context 20 Show data context
Higher managerial & administrative occupations 988 Show data context 2,565 Show data context 1,561 Show data context
Higher professional occupations 1,777 Show data context 12,153 Show data context 4,307 Show data context
Lower professional & higher technical occupations 5,928 Show data context 7,722 Show data context 9,975 Show data context
Lower managerial & administrative occupations 2,589 Show data context 2,324 Show data context 2,207 Show data context
Higher supervisory occupations 1,944 Show data context 2,107 Show data context 2,184 Show data context
Intermediate occupations 7,595 Show data context 10,526 Show data context 10,623 Show data context
Employers in small organisations 968 Show data context 893 Show data context 902 Show data context
Own account workers 1,665 Show data context 2,791 Show data context 3,663 Show data context
Lower supervisory occupations 3,197 Show data context 3,159 Show data context 2,547 Show data context
Lower technical occupations 2,156 Show data context 3,091 Show data context 3,367 Show data context
Semi-routine occupations 9,796 Show data context 12,663 Show data context 10,005 Show data context
Routine occupations 7,741 Show data context 9,951 Show data context 11,506 Show data context
Never worked & long-term unemployed 3,484 Show data context 4,484 Show data context 6,126 Show data context
Full-time students 4,074 Show data context 4,801 Show data context 4,470 Show data context
Date Source
2001 National Records of Scotland, Scotland's Census (Table UV31, NS-SeC (51 way))
2011 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table QS607UK - NS-SeC)
2021 National Records of Scotland, Scotland's Census (Table UV607, NS-SeC, for "all people aged 16 and over")

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This classification is designed to permit data from the 1801 Crop Returns to be included with data from the annual Agricultural Census from 1866 onwards. The 1801 Returns were highly simplified, and varied in what they reported from one parish to another, so in practice we can consistently identify only three individual crops (wheat, rye and potatoes) and two pairings ("Barley and Oats", and "Peas and Beans"). Everything else has to be included in "Other". The 1801 returns also provided limited geographical cov...


erage: a great many parishes were missing from the data, and some additional parish names could not be identified, matched more than one parish within the named county, or lacked information on the county they were in. Nottinghamshire is completely missing. County totals include data for parishes that could not be identified. The national total for England includes parishes with missing county information. The national total for England is also used as the total for England and Wales, to permit the web site to present comparisons with national totals, even though the 1801 returns contain no data on Wales.


How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, West Dunbartonshire Council through time | Historical Statistics on Social Structure | NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way), A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10039745/cube/NS_SEC_15WAY

Date accessed: 03rd June 2026