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Statistical reports

After every census, the details given by every household to the enumerators are gathered to create the national statistics that go on to inform government and health policies. For decades and even centuries, those reports are used by a variety of individuals and organisations to gain a better understanding of the country at that time. This was the same after the 1921 Census of England and Wales. All the census schedules were gathered by the enumerators and sent to the census headquarters at the converted Lambeth Workhouse. For six years, census clerks calculated not only the national statistics but also the statistical reports for each county.

Every county report and the national report will include reports on the following details:

• Population
• Population growth
• Marital Status
• Orphanhood
• Education
• Occupations (both male and female)
• Industries
• Dependency
• Birthplaces
• Movement of population
• Widows

Occupation books

Along with the statistical reports we have published the books related to the classification and definition of all occupational terms in the 1921 Census. The Dictionary of Occupational Terms was first published in 1927. Every occupation was classified and allocated a code. Those codes appear in green ink on the census schedules. Usually, the code is three digits from 000 to 999 and then followed by a slash and an extra digit. You can link every code to an occupation definition. The additional digit indicate the following -

/0 = not employed - in education etc

/1 = not employed - unpaid domestic duties etc

/2 = employer - not working at home

/3 = employer - working at home

/4 = self-employed (own account) - not working at home

/5 = self-employed (own account) - working at home

/6 = employed - not working at home

/7 = employed - working at home

/8 = unemployed

In addition to the Dictionary of Occupational Terms, we have provided the Classification of Occupations. A publication that includes detailed lists of the classification of not just the occupations but also the industries. For example, Industry order XXVII was for Persons Engaged in Personal Service and then within that order, the occupational code for Domestic Servants was 900. It also includes instructions to the clerks employed in classifying occupations.

1921 Census for England & Wales Report

1921 Classification of Occupations

1921 Dictionary of Occupational Terms

Occupation Code Books

Counties of Brecknock and Radnor

Counties of Cambridge including the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon

Counties of Carnarvon and Anglesey

Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland

Counties of Lincoln and Rutland

Counties of Merioneth and Montgomery

County of Bedford

County of Berks

County of Buckingham

County of Cardigan

County of Carmarthen

County of Chester

County of Cornwall

County of Denbigh

County of Derby

County of Devon

County of Dorset

County of Durham

County of Essex

County of Flint

County of Glamorgan

County of Gloucester

County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

County of Hereford

County of Hertford

County of Kent

County of Lancaster

County of Leicester

County of London

County of Middlesex

County of Monmouth

County of Norfolk

County of Northampton Including the Soke of Peterborough

County of Northumberland

County of Nottingham

County of Oxford

County of Pembroke

County of Salop

County of Somerset

County of Stafford

County of Suffolk

County of Surrey

County of Sussex

County of Warwick

County of Wilts

County of Worcester

County of Yorkshire

Preliminary Report including tables of the population enumerated in England and Wales and in Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on 19/20 June.