Cumberland 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	11,926	2,931	14,815	4,383	13,061	826	1,262
1861	19,784	5,242	17,399	7,366	11,845	2,245	1,435
1881	12,596	9,950	20,217	10,069	17,832	1,770	2,458
1911	16,144	14,695	25,147	14,617	23,757	3,064	4,859
1931	11,457	13,151	19,876	11,916	23,186	2,049	6,964
1951	10,757	8,230	36,381	20,098	22,171	2,222	15,152
1971	6,921	2,633	32,740	16,813	19,806	4,310	17,674
1991	4,980	610	34,236	20,028	26,697	10,736	22,955
2001	4,384	397	24,175	18,131	32,657	11,450	26,685
2011	3,623	290	19,257	22,412	36,358	16,024	34,877
2021	3,955	218	10,825	29,426	31,120	16,180	36,059

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.

Cumberland Unitary Authority (UA) : Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (7-way)