Birmingham CB/MB through time | Social Structure Statistics

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Registrar General's Social Class	1951	1961	1971
Class 1	8,425	10,610	1,031
Class 2	44,647	31,804	3,616
Class 3	227,983	203,215	16,182
Class 4	55,134	76,863	6,857
Class 5	50,454	30,388	2,715
Class not stated			972

Date:	Source:
1951	1951 Census of England and Wales, County Report, Table 27 , 'Social Class distribution of Occupied and Retired Males aged 15 and over', for 'AC, MB, UD, RD'
1961	1961 Census of England and Wales, Occupations County Leaflets, Table 5 , 'Socio-economic Group (Numbers and Proportions) of Economically Active Males and Economically Inactive Males (stating an occupation)', for 'AC, LAA, County Aggregates, Con, NT (10% sample)'
1971	Census of Population

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Occupational Data from various dates classified into the Registrar General's Social Classification.

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