Great Lever

Occupation Group
People aged 16-74 who stated they were an employee or self-employed were also asked to
provide further details on the Census form with a job description question asking for the full
title of their main job and the description of what is done in that job. These were then coded
to the 2000 edition of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) to give the person an
occupational grade.
Great Lever
(Numbers)
Great Lever
(%)
Bolton
(%)
England &
Wales
(%)
Managers & Senior Officials 469 10.2 13.8 15.1
Professional 275 6.0 9.8 11.2
Associate professional & Technical 400 8.7 12.2 13.8
Administrative & Secretarial 520 11.3 12.8 13.3
Skilled trade 522 11.4 11.9 11.6
Personal Service 339 7.4 7.5 6.9
Sales & Customer Service 532 11.6 9.0 7.7
Process, Plant & Machine Operatives 797 17.3 11.1 8.5
Elementary 745 16.2 12.2 11.9
Source: Census 2001, Key Statistics Table KS12, ‘Occupation Groups’, Crown Copyright.
Census 2001 Occupation Group
Elementary
Process, Plant & Machine Operatives
Sales & Customer Service
Personal Service
Skilled trade
England & Wales
Bolton MBC
Great Lever
Administrative & Secretarial
Associate professional & Technical
Professional
Managers & Senior Officials
4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% 18%
% Total population aged 16-74 in employment
• There are significantly less people in employment in higher-grade occupations, and
significantly more in lower-grade, elementary occupations in Great Lever than both
Bolton and England & Wales.
• Almost half of the employed population in Great Lever worked in the bottom three
occupational tiers, compared to just one third in Bolton. Further to this, only one quarter
of the employed population worked in the top three occupational tiers, compared to 35%
in Bolton, and 40% nationally.
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