Rotherham 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	2,084	617	4,892	637	1,964
1861	3,199	1,745	5,437	1,457	2,962
1881	2,007	7,175	7,961	2,532	5,868
1911	4,459	13,008	22,741	8,285	14,764
1931	1,575	28,054	15,588	5,909	17,121
1951	1,576	27,584	33,138	10,550	20,169
1971	1,754	8,957	41,793	11,437	31,457
1991	392	4,801	23,618	13,312	44,661
2001	813	558	21,509	16,894	66,618
2011	365	422	15,383	19,099	79,602
2021	342	151	12,661	21,910	82,737

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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Rotherham District : Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)