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Table 5.7 Occupational structure (primary, secondary and tertiary) from the 1841 census
in Zone B, Southern (Champion) Country (as % of entries showing occupations in each
gender and age group)
Males Females Males Females
20+ 20+ under 20 under 20
Primary with agricultural labourers 63.8 26.5 29.6 1.9
Primary without labourers 10.7 4.6 2.5 0.0
Secondary with non-agricultural labourers 25.9 14.8 20.1 1.0
Secondary without labourers 21.8 11.2 15.7 1.0
Tertiary 10.4 58.7 50.3 97.1
Total (n) 1280 196 159 103
When compared with the baptism data in Table 5.5 the pattern for the 1841
census suggests a continuing increase in the secondary and tertiary share of the adult
male workforce into the 1840s. Despite the under-recording of females and adolescents
in the census, Table 5.7 highlights the expected contrast in the occupational structures of
the four age and gender groupings within this zone. More specific analysis of such
differences is given below. 14
As expected, the Champion Country’s economy differs greatly from the picture of
the market town’s economy in 1841 shown in Chapter 4 (Table 4.7). In all four
age/gender groupings the secondary sector share in this zone is much smaller than that of
the needlemaking market town. The primary sector is of course much more dominant in
the Champion Country’s occupational structure for all males and for adult females than in
Alcester, while the tertiary sector is more prominent in this zone than in Alcester for all
females and for males under 20.
14 For comparison with other zones see Appendix 26.
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