New occupations listed in 2011 Census
Internet shopper and e-bay trader are included in the updated list of jobs in the 2011 Census.
The Census takes place on Sunday 27th March 2011 and it is very important that everyone in Stockport completes a Census form.
Census statisticians have to keep track of, for example, changing occupations over the decades, with the 2011 Census including many more occupations such as eBay trader, website designer, barista, wedding planner, website content manager as well as internet shopper and internet consultant.
Genuine occupations in the 1921 Census included backwasher, blubberer, carrotter, pug hunter, gongman, and cordwainer. And 100 years ago in 1911 the thriving mining trade had scores of occupations listed to describe its full range of jobs.
Once not considered an occupation, the introduction of ‘housewife’ (or ‘women engaged in domestic duties’) as a job in 1851 meant that the number of ‘occupied women’ increased by a million, from 1.8 to 2.8 million in the space of a decade. In 2001 the number of women in England and Wales aged 16-74 ‘looking after home/family’ was 2,278,790; the number of men was 170,066.
The Census collects key information about the population every 10 years and people need to take part so that local services such as the provision of schools, hospitals housing, roads and emergency services covering Stockport can be planned and funded for in the future.
Census forms will be delivered to all homes in March.
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