North Ayrshire Council : 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 195 Show data context 1,366 Show data context 74 Show data context
Higher managerial & administrative occupations 1,667 Show data context 4,704 Show data context 2,684 Show data context
Higher professional occupations 2,701 Show data context 18,806 Show data context 6,857 Show data context
Lower professional & higher technical occupations 8,721 Show data context 12,301 Show data context 15,681 Show data context
Lower managerial & administrative occupations 3,761 Show data context 3,809 Show data context 3,332 Show data context
Higher supervisory occupations 2,261 Show data context 2,696 Show data context 3,165 Show data context
Intermediate occupations 8,012 Show data context 12,877 Show data context 13,859 Show data context
Employers in small organisations 2,323 Show data context 2,296 Show data context 2,187 Show data context
Own account workers 3,201 Show data context 5,228 Show data context 6,626 Show data context
Lower supervisory occupations 4,948 Show data context 5,221 Show data context 4,150 Show data context
Lower technical occupations 3,852 Show data context 5,029 Show data context 5,158 Show data context
Semi-routine occupations 13,492 Show data context 17,835 Show data context 15,319 Show data context
Routine occupations 11,287 Show data context 14,808 Show data context 16,926 Show data context
Never worked & long-term unemployed 5,019 Show data context 6,863 Show data context 9,607 Show data context
Full-time students 6,011 Show data context 7,315 Show data context 6,617 Show data context
Date Source
2001 National Records of Scotland, Scotland's Census (Table UV31, NS-SeC (51 way))
2011 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table QS607UK - NS-SeC)
2021 National Records of Scotland, Scotland's Census (Table UV607, NS-SeC, for "all people aged 16 and over")

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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, North Ayrshire Council 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