Chester Built-up Area : 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 139 Show data context 1,526 Show data context 58 Show data context
Higher managerial & administrative occupations 2,136 Show data context 6,418 Show data context 3,270 Show data context
Higher professional occupations 3,903 Show data context 14,335 Show data context 8,703 Show data context
Lower professional & higher technical occupations 6,923 Show data context 9,363 Show data context 11,100 Show data context
Lower managerial & administrative occupations 3,270 Show data context 3,259 Show data context 3,188 Show data context
Higher supervisory occupations 1,611 Show data context 1,713 Show data context 1,836 Show data context
Intermediate occupations 4,924 Show data context 7,526 Show data context 8,463 Show data context
Employers in small organisations 1,080 Show data context 1,185 Show data context 1,279 Show data context
Own account workers 1,984 Show data context 3,292 Show data context 4,946 Show data context
Lower supervisory occupations 3,057 Show data context 2,786 Show data context 2,079 Show data context
Lower technical occupations 1,380 Show data context 2,142 Show data context 2,098 Show data context
Semi-routine occupations 7,026 Show data context 9,062 Show data context 8,585 Show data context
Routine occupations 4,581 Show data context 6,453 Show data context 8,992 Show data context
Never worked & long-term unemployed 1,687 Show data context 2,467 Show data context 5,223 Show data context
Full-time students 4,972 Show data context 7,440 Show data context 7,902 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, Chester Built-up Area 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: 08th June 2026