Wigan District through time | Historical Statistics on Industry

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Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)

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Year	Agriculture	Mining	Manufacturing	Util+Const+Transp	Consumer Services	Business Services	Public Services
1841	1,308	820	8,531	932	2,061	217	260
1861	3,848	6,609	13,826	2,401	3,636	348	359
1881	1,999	21,610	26,630	5,496	9,979	1,404	1,187
1911	3,476	20,878	64,366	14,021	19,663	4,998	4,138
1931	1,697	34,645	41,510	9,000	17,827	1,786	6,172
1951	1,445	25,103	45,846	12,946	19,533	1,565	8,191
1971	1,747	1,580	46,237	15,438	21,654	4,235	14,603
1991	499	1,373	25,075	16,191	27,100	8,596	19,292
2001	763	186	26,368	22,358	38,491	16,542	30,910
2011	274	129	17,662	25,852	40,668	23,995	41,328
2021	343	115	13,740	29,216	38,420	24,412	48,329

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	Great Britain Historical GIS Project Computed from 1881 microdata
1911	1911 Census of England and Wales, Occupations Vol 1, Table 15 A, 'Grouped occupations of Males and Females aged 10 years and upwards, in Administrative Counties, County Boroughs, Metropolitan Boroughs, Urban Districts of which the population exceeded 5,000 persons, aggregates of other Urban Districts, and aggregates of Rural Districts; also proportion per 1,000 of unmarried, married, widowed, and of married and widowed women engaged in occupations, and proportion of female domestic servants to separate occupiers or families, 1911 - Males'
1931	1931 Census of England and Wales, Industry, Table 3 , 'Industries (condensed list) of Males and Females (exclusive of persons out of work)'
1951	1951 Census of England and Wales, Industry, 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'
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'
1991	Census of Population
2001	Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table UV034, Industry (17 way))
2011	Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table KS605UK - Industry)
2021	Office for National Statistics, ONS "Create a Custom Dataset" ("Industry (current)" (19 way))

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Wigan District : Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)