Middlesbrough Unitary Authority (UA) 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	272	15	119	46	155	11	11
1861	373	103	472	199	233	35	32
1881	443	80	10,342	3,237	4,132	909	595
1911	858	764	20,477	9,492	9,857	2,073	1,813
1931	361	156	18,972	8,159	12,415	1,027	3,377
1951	396	40	23,924	12,011	13,521	1,544	5,982
1971	157	14	21,564	6,802	8,951	1,659	6,485
1991	60	220	6,055	8,952	14,153	9,232	20,361
2001	244	259	7,102	8,107	13,644	5,836	14,092
2011	82	387	4,430	8,492	15,274	8,207	17,675
2021	85	604	3,999	8,717	14,044	8,301	20,638

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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Here we present how the economic foundations of each locality have changed over time, identifying the traditional sectors of Agriculture, Mining and Manufacturing which dominated many areas in the nineteenth century, but also breaking down Services into those which, broadly, sell directly to consumers; those which deal mainly with other buinesses, including financial services; and public services, including education and health.

Middlesbrough Unitary Authority (UA) : Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)