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	1911
9	Books, Prints and Maps	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
10	Dealers in Machines and Implements	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1
11	Workers and Dealers in Houses, Furniture and Decorations	2	4	5	5	5	5	3	5
12	Workers and Dealers in Carriages and Harnesses	3	2	1	1	1	1	0
13	Workers and Dealers in Ships and Boats	0	1	1	1	1	1	1
15	Workers and Dealers in Tobacco and Pipes	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
16	Workers and Dealers in Food and Lodging	3	3	6	6	5	7	7	6
17	Workers and Dealers in Textile Fabrics	1	0	0	0	0	2	9	7
18	Workers and Dealers in Dress	4	12	7	5	4	4	0	2
19	Workers and Dealers in Various Animal Substances	6	5	2	0	0	0	0
20	Workers and Dealers in Various Vegetable Substances	0	0	1	3	1	2	0	1
21	Workers and Dealers in Various Mineral Substances	0	0	3	3	4	5	1	1
22	Workers and Dealers in General or Unspecified Commodities	4	23	0	8	7	10	8	3
23	Workers and Dealers in Refuse Matters	1	0	5	3	3	4	3	1
	Total	24	51	32	35	31	43	32	27

JpGraph Error: 2003 Number of X and Y points are not equal. Number of X-points: 8 Number of Y-points: 7