Tameside District through time | Historical Statistics on Industry

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Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

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Year	Agriculture	Mining	Manufacturing	Util+Const+Transp	Services
1841	838	612	22,818	2,481	6,214
1861	1,569	1,320	25,076	2,662	5,651
1881	982	2,526	46,967	5,290	12,501
1911	3,472	5,482	52,343	11,986	27,105
1931	963	1,261	52,646	8,190	22,051
1951	815	957	58,662	9,441	23,430
1971	2,206	805	30,711	9,829	24,103
1991	332	0	24,688	10,742	39,592
2001	428	66	20,928	14,414	60,407
2011	110	44	13,449	15,814	72,475
2021	132	90	10,063	17,289	78,085

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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Occupations of both sexes classified into Socio-Economic Groups. This structure was used by the censuses between 1961 and 1991.

Tameside District : Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)