South Tyneside 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	462	1,114	1,903	1,767	1,541
1861	615	507	4,342	4,231	2,525
1881	566	2,003	12,787	7,661	7,615
1911	983	16,730	18,302	13,606	17,044
1931	607	7,499	12,549	8,662	21,090
1951	474	6,023	29,344	11,177	19,581
1971	537	5,645	19,300	8,732	23,385
1991	140	1,692	9,371	6,493	27,218
2001	263	433	11,114	9,094	37,969
2011	65	516	7,406	9,899	46,736
2021	61	519	5,962	9,843	46,153

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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South Tyneside District : Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)