Ossett Ward : Socio-Economic Group

Socio-Economic Group

Data cube chart.

Socio-Economic Groups 1971 1981 1991
SEG 1: Employers & managers - large establishments 26 Show data context 47 Show data context 40 Show data context
SEG 2: Employers & managers - small establishments 54 Show data context 50 Show data context 95 Show data context
SEG 3: Professional workers - self-employed 2 Show data context 4 Show data context 2 Show data context
SEG 4: Professional workers - employees 13 Show data context 11 Show data context 23 Show data context
SEG 5: Intermediate non-manual workers 46 Show data context 82 Show data context 80 Show data context
SEG 6: Junior non-manual workers 117 Show data context 164 Show data context 175 Show data context
SEG 7: Personal service workers 34 Show data context 33 Show data context 32 Show data context
SEG 8: Foremen & supervisors - manual 21 Show data context 25 Show data context 16 Show data context
SEG 9: Skilled manual workers 208 Show data context 185 Show data context 128 Show data context
SEG 10: Semi-skilled manual workers 132 Show data context 143 Show data context 94 Show data context
SEG 11: Unskilled manual workers 61 Show data context 53 Show data context 45 Show data context
SEG 12: Own account workers (other than professional) 23 Show data context 32 Show data context 41 Show data context
SEG 13: Farmers - employers & managers 0 Show data context 0 Show data context 1 Show data context
SEG 14: Farmers - own account 1 Show data context 1 Show data context 1 Show data context
SEG 15: Agricultural workers 2 Show data context 1 Show data context 0 Show data context
SEG 16: Members of armed forces 0 Show data context 0 Show data context 3 Show data context
SEG 17: Indefinite 81 Show data context 52 Show data context 4 Show data context
Date Source
1971 UK Data Service, Census 1971 data (Table SAS23: "SEG and economic position (10% Sample): Economically Active residents")
1981 UK Data Service, Census 1981 data (SAS50: "Socio-Economic group and economic positions (10% Sample): Economically active residents")
1991 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table S92 "SEG and economic position (10% sample): Economically active residents)

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This classification is designed to permit data from the 1801 Crop Returns to be included with data from the annual Agricultural Census from 1866 onwards. The 1801 Returns were highly simplified, and varied in what they reported from one parish to another, so in practice we can consistently identify only three individual crops (wheat, rye and potatoes) and two pairings ("Barley and Oats", and "Peas and Beans"). Everything else has to be included in "Other". The 1801 returns also provided limited geographical cov...


erage: a great many parishes were missing from the data, and some additional parish names could not be identified, matched more than one parish within the named county, or lacked information on the county they were in. Nottinghamshire is completely missing. County totals include data for parishes that could not be identified. The national total for England includes parishes with missing county information. The national total for England is also used as the total for England and Wales, to permit the web site to present comparisons with national totals, even though the 1801 returns contain no data on Wales.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Ossett Ward through time | Historical Statistics on Social Structure | Socio-Economic Group, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 10th April 2026