Birmingham District 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	3,504	249	40,836	6,713	16,227	2,989	1,894
1861	4,833	1,571	70,704	14,697	23,970	4,358	3,031
1881	4,446	287	113,918	24,675	43,843	10,384	6,019
1911	8,563	2,648	211,241	50,767	80,754	27,117	15,449
1931	2,045	370	249,476	56,722	105,441	12,854	30,074
1951	1,248	357	363,997	72,740	121,556	19,360	48,406
1971	582	194	293,697	73,783	106,073	43,921	83,508
1991	586	13	127,092	55,389	94,749	83,830	99,401
2001	1,263	141	63,859	50,143	94,082	62,444	95,253
2011	419	81	39,056	54,338	112,732	82,297	134,768
2021	395	77	34,865	63,900	108,843	83,368	150,936

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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Numbers unemployed as recorded by the Census of Population.

Birmingham District : Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)