Port Talbot Municipal Borough (MB) through time | Historical Statistics on Industry

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Working age population by Sector

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Cambridge Group Industrial Sector	1921	1931	1951
Agriculture	23	296	221
Light Industry	1,130	2,275	3,608
Staple Industry	2,231	5,102	4,449
Professional	1,980	6,048	7,658
Unclassified or Unoccupied	638	2,121	17,833

Date	Source
1921	1921 Census of England and Wales, County Report, Table 17 , 'Occupations (Condensed list)'
1931	1931 Census of England and Wales, Occupations, Table 17 , 'Occupations (condensed list) of Males and Females, showing also the 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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Working age population grouped into the four Sectors defined by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

Port Talbot Municipal Borough (MB) : Working age population by Sector

Working age population by Sector