Exeter District : NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way)

NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way)

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NS Socio-economic Classfication (15 way) 2001 2011 2021
Employers in large establishments 108 Show data context 1,414 Show data context 78 Show data context
Higher managerial & administrative occupations 1,552 Show data context 7,452 Show data context 3,010 Show data context
Higher professional occupations 4,131 Show data context 17,139 Show data context 10,690 Show data context
Lower professional & higher technical occupations 8,122 Show data context 11,120 Show data context 14,109 Show data context
Lower managerial & administrative occupations 3,776 Show data context 3,681 Show data context 3,767 Show data context
Higher supervisory occupations 2,506 Show data context 2,338 Show data context 2,392 Show data context
Intermediate occupations 8,311 Show data context 11,469 Show data context 11,930 Show data context
Employers in small organisations 1,582 Show data context 1,449 Show data context 1,592 Show data context
Own account workers 3,204 Show data context 4,888 Show data context 7,302 Show data context
Lower supervisory occupations 4,024 Show data context 3,257 Show data context 2,431 Show data context
Lower technical occupations 1,544 Show data context 2,257 Show data context 2,487 Show data context
Semi-routine occupations 10,230 Show data context 12,179 Show data context 11,324 Show data context
Routine occupations 7,207 Show data context 8,939 Show data context 12,137 Show data context
Never worked & long-term unemployed 1,910 Show data context 2,816 Show data context 5,742 Show data context
Full-time students 11,952 Show data context 16,285 Show data context 22,310 Show data context
Date Source
2001 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table UV031, NS-Sec (21 way))
2011 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table QS607UK - NS-SeC)
2021 Office for National Statistics, ONS "Create a Custom Dataset" (National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (17 way))

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This classification is designed to permit data from the 1801 Crop Returns to be included with data from the annual Agricultural Census from 1866 onwards. The 1801 Returns were highly simplified, and varied in what they reported from one parish to another, so in practice we can consistently identify only three individual crops (wheat, rye and potatoes) and two pairings ("Barley and Oats", and "Peas and Beans"). Everything else has to be included in "Other". The 1801 returns also provided limited geographical cov...


erage: a great many parishes were missing from the data, and some additional parish names could not be identified, matched more than one parish within the named county, or lacked information on the county they were in. Nottinghamshire is completely missing. County totals include data for parishes that could not be identified. The national total for England includes parishes with missing county information. The national total for England is also used as the total for England and Wales, to permit the web site to present comparisons with national totals, even though the 1801 returns contain no data on Wales.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Exeter District through time | Historical Statistics on Social Structure | NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way), A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 05th June 2026