Chiltern Villages Ward : NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way)

NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way)

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NS Socio-economic Classfication (15 way) 2001 2011 2021
Employers in large establishments 24 Show data context 531 Show data context 40 Show data context
Higher managerial & administrative occupations 733 Show data context 1,071 Show data context 905 Show data context
Higher professional occupations 709 Show data context 2,249 Show data context 1,210 Show data context
Lower professional & higher technical occupations 1,025 Show data context 1,338 Show data context 1,474 Show data context
Lower managerial & administrative occupations 692 Show data context 674 Show data context 557 Show data context
Higher supervisory occupations 287 Show data context 237 Show data context 293 Show data context
Intermediate occupations 686 Show data context 962 Show data context 959 Show data context
Employers in small organisations 257 Show data context 268 Show data context 282 Show data context
Own account workers 525 Show data context 766 Show data context 1,001 Show data context
Lower supervisory occupations 291 Show data context 235 Show data context 146 Show data context
Lower technical occupations 128 Show data context 161 Show data context 207 Show data context
Semi-routine occupations 646 Show data context 738 Show data context 625 Show data context
Routine occupations 392 Show data context 506 Show data context 521 Show data context
Never worked & long-term unemployed 147 Show data context 202 Show data context 401 Show data context
Full-time students 474 Show data context 447 Show data context 491 Show data context
Date Source
2001 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table UV031, NS-Sec (21 way))
2011 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table QS607UK - NS-SeC)
2021 Office for National Statistics, ONS "Create a Custom Dataset" (National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (17 way))

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The 1939 National Registration tabulated age and gender structure using a greatly simplified nine-way classification of ages. The introduction to the report states that this was to aid the enumerators who were doing much of the analysis before sending the completed forms to the Registrar General. Again to simplify the forms, people were asked to state their year of birth rather than their age. The fractions in the age bands occurred because "In consequence of these procedure restrictions, the number of groups ident...


ified ... is limited to nine in respect of each sex and being calendar year of birth groups, they do not correspond with integral years of age owing to the fact that the enumeration took place at the end of the third quarter of 1939."

The data are for the civilian population only. At this date, the armed services were almost all male, and under 45. An estimated 1,010,000 were in the services in Great Britain, of whom 900,000 were in England and Wales.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Chiltern Villages Ward through time | Historical Statistics on Social Structure | NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way), A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 06th June 2026