East Riding of Yorkshire Unitary Authority (UA) 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	18,125	315	8,673	2,608	10,299	944	922
1861	22,089	48	11,767	4,871	10,162	1,402	1,545
1881	16,922	29	7,625	5,291	12,113	998	1,837
1911	19,380	2,519	12,498	8,504	18,794	1,771	3,299
1931	15,696	435	9,771	11,612	21,735	1,564	6,085
1951	16,662	319	15,664	11,974	18,524	1,184	12,925
1971	8,910	1,392	20,601	10,782	14,544	2,985	12,595
1991	8,090	850	22,104	14,814	25,620	7,564	25,508
2001	6,387	552	23,748	20,423	37,971	16,535	39,192
2011	4,582	500	17,707	22,996	40,351	21,857	50,764
2021	4,797	476	15,481	24,182	37,939	22,746	50,424

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.

East Riding of Yorkshire Unitary Authority (UA) : Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)