Barnsley 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	2,374	964	8,737	1,107	2,622	271	231
1861	3,373	4,146	8,792	1,862	2,700	353	328
1881	2,113	12,113	9,223	3,134	5,089	716	685
1911	3,233	16,231	30,876	9,953	12,981	2,534	2,435
1931	1,697	38,299	11,463	6,350	12,462	1,100	4,483
1951	1,613	27,527	17,997	10,394	13,825	1,078	6,047
1971	1,628	7,677	27,622	10,691	15,184	2,599	11,257
1991	834	3,210	17,127	10,755	19,218	5,037	15,462
2001	864	886	17,891	14,260	24,066	9,562	21,397
2011	530	447	13,003	17,917	27,091	15,037	29,554
2021	523	123	11,919	21,025	29,789	15,282	32,969

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 of the two sexes tend to be balanced. Military bases led to higher proportions of men, while large numbers of domestic servants created concentrations of women.

Barnsley District : Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)