Swansea County Borough (CB) through time | Historical Statistics on Work & Poverty

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Census Unemployment by Sex

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Data for 1931	Sex
Census Unemployment	Male	Female
In employment	36,012	12,045
Self-employed
Unemployed	13,293	1,308

Data for 1951	Sex
Census Unemployment	Male	Female
In employment	47,981	16,305
Self-employed	2,386	710
Unemployed	1,481	510

Date	Source
1931	1931 Census of England and Wales, Occupations, Table 16 , 'Occupations of Males and Females, showing also total Operatives and the total Out of Work'
1951	1951 Census of England and Wales, Occupations, Table 21 , 'Selected Occupations with Status Aggregates - abridged analysis', for 'Con divisions and sub-divisions, Urban Areas with population of less than 50,000, RD, NT'

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Numbers unemployed as recorded by the Census of Population.

Swansea County Borough (CB) : Census Unemployment by Sex

Census Unemployment by Sex