Occupation_3 - Henley Census Group

Occupations

The categorization introduced in 1881 and described by Matthew Woollard has been used for all census years 1841 - 1901 with additional classification of the "unoccupied" class.

Around 4,000 distinct occupations were classified initially by Jill Kendal. Some variations, such as the many abbreviations of "Agricultural Labourer" were replaced withpout losing any information, but the database table of occupations still contains 3,819 entries. We have introduced a "Preferred Occupation" field with 2,622 distict entries, to remove many entries that are essentially duplicates and also clarifies the entries where a declared occupation includes a work status such as "Unemployed", "Formerly" etc. This allows these terms to be searched for, as well as the Classes, Groups, Sub-groups and Categories used in the 1881 categorization. In reporting occupations this "Preferred Occupation" is used whereas in the "Name Index" section the original "Occupation" is used.

Later census years included additional information about work status, whether persons were employers or employees and whether they worked at home. These also can be used in searches of the database and included in reports, along with partial searches of the "Preferred Occupation" to find occupations that include say "Farm".

Included as an appendix to the document written by Matthew Woollard a list of Classes, Groups, Sub-Groups and categories with the additional classification of the "unoccupied" class can be found here.

Class: 5 Industrial

Number of persons in each Group

Id	Group	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901
9	Books, Prints and Maps	5	4	7	5	12	18	21
10	Dealers in Machines and Implements	13	12	11	11	18	28	28
11	Workers and Dealers in Houses, Furniture and Decorations	128	161	228	198	213	274	386
12	Workers and Dealers in Carriages and Harnesses	29	27	26	36	27	31	32
13	Workers and Dealers in Ships and Boats	1	4	4	5	7	18	13
14	Workers and Dealers in Chemicals and Compounds	5	4	8	9	6	7	4
15	Workers and Dealers in Tobacco and Pipes	0	0	0	2	3	4	3
16	Workers and Dealers in Food and Lodging	133	204	211	238	255	291	320
17	Workers and Dealers in Textile Fabrics	33	45	45	48	41	51	58
18	Workers and Dealers in Dress	148	249	237	186	171	165	162
19	Workers and Dealers in Various Animal Substances	14	10	14	3	3	3	3
20	Workers and Dealers in Various Vegetable Substances	41	47	45	49	44	44	55
21	Workers and Dealers in Various Mineral Substances	51	67	63	69	72	69	74
22	Workers and Dealers in General or Unspecified Commodities	238	226	81	143	220	285	251
23	Workers and Dealers in Refuse Matters	6	16	13	4	6	6	9
	Total	845	1076	993	1006	1098	1294	1419

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