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Census Data
Your Region
Look at the 1971 figures of your region in Table 1. Notice that the numbers
are in millions.
|
Population
(millions) |
Pensioners
(millions) |
Women
working
(%) |
People in
car-less
households
(%) |
No. of
households
(millions) |
|
1961 |
1971 |
1961 |
1971 |
1961 |
1971 |
1961 |
1971 |
1961 |
1971 |
|
England and Wales |
46.1 |
48.8 |
6.9 |
8.0 |
42 |
43 |
49 |
42 |
14.6 |
16.5 |
|
Regions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Greater London |
8.00 |
7.45 |
1.20 |
1.19 |
50 |
50 |
51 |
46 |
2.66 |
2.65 |
|
Rest of South-east |
8.20 |
9.78 |
1.23 |
1.74 |
38 |
41 |
37 |
32 |
2.59 |
3.26 |
|
East Anglia |
1.47 |
1.67 |
0.23 |
0.28 |
37 |
39 |
40 |
32 |
0.47 |
0.57 |
|
East Midlands |
3.21 |
3.39 |
0.45 |
0.54 |
43 |
43 |
48 |
41 |
1.00 |
1.14 |
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Yorks & Humberside |
4.60 |
4.80 |
0.69 |
0.77 |
41 |
42 |
57 |
50 |
1.50 |
1.65 |
|
North |
3.25 |
3.30 |
0.46 |
0.53 |
38 |
40 |
59 |
52 |
1.00 |
1.10 |
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Nort-west |
6.57 |
6.74 |
0.99 |
1.08 |
45 |
44 |
56 |
48 |
2.10 |
2.27 |
|
West Midlands |
4.76 |
5.11 |
0.62 |
0.72 |
46 |
45 |
46 |
41 |
1.45 |
1.68 |
|
Wales |
2.64 |
2.73 |
0.40 |
0.46 |
34 |
36 |
48 |
40 |
0.80 |
0.90 |
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South-west |
3.41 |
3.78 |
0.58 |
0.72 |
37 |
38 |
40 |
32 |
1.07 |
1.28 |
(Sources: Census 1971, Census Matters)
Table 1 - Census data,
England and Wales, totals and by regions.
In your region:
- What was the size of the population?
- What was the number of pensioners?
- What was the percentage of working women?
- What was the percentage of people in carless
households?
- What was the number of households?
- By how much did the population of your region in 1971
differ from that of each of the other regions?
- Describe briefly how your region has changed between 1961 and 1971.
Consider in turn each of the headings of Table 1.
In 1974 the Government gave
about £70 to the local authorities for each person in the regions.
- For your own region work out how much money the local
authorities received.
- If your region had an extra 50000 people in 1974, how much extra money
would it have received?
Population
Use Table 1 to help you answer the following questions:
- How many people lived in England and Wales in 1971?
- Draw bar charts to show how the population of each
region changed from 1961 to 1971.
- Which region in 1971 had: the highest percentage of
women working, the lowest percentage of women working?
- Which region in 1971 had: the highest number of
pensioners, the lowest number of pensioners?
- *Which, regions need good public transport?
Households
To work out the mean household size, we divide the total number of people by
the total number of households.
Mean household size = number of
people/number of households
e.g. in 1961 in England and Wales there were 46.1 million
people and 14.6 million households
Mean household size = 46.1/14.6 = 3.16 people per household.
- Work out the mean household size of England and Wales
in 1971.
- Write a sentence describing how this compares with the
1961 figure.
- Work out the mean household size of your region in
1961 and 1971 and comment on the results.
- *Work out the percentage increase in the population in
England and Wales between 1961 and 1971.
- *Work out the percentage increase in the number of
households in England and Wales between 1961 and 1971.
- *Compare your answers to d and e. What effect do these
figures have on household size? Does this agree with what you noticed in b?
- *Work out the percentage increase of the population in
our region between 1961 and 1971.
- *Work out the percentage increase in the number of
households in your region between 1961 and 1971.
- *Compare your answers to g and h. What effect do these figures have on
household size? Does this agree with what you noticed in c?
Sex Distribution
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|
1931 |
1951 |
1961 |
1971 |
|
Men |
19.1 |
21.0 |
22.3 |
23.7 |
|
Women |
20.8 |
22.7 |
23.8 |
25.1 |
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Total |
40.0 |
43.7 |
46.1 |
48.8 |
(Source: Census 1951, 1971 Preliminary Reports, Census
Matters)
Table 2 - Sex distribution of population in England and Wales,
1931-1971 (Millions)
Use Table 2 to help you answer the following.
- Why do the figures for 1931 not add up correctly?
The table shows that there were more women than men in England and Wales in
each of the four census years from 1931 to 1971.
- Write down one reason to explain this.
- What effect on society would you expect this imbalance
between the sexes to have?
- What was the increase in the total population from
1931 to 1971?
- How many of these extra people were men?
- How many of these extra people were women?
- Is the gap between the number of women and the number
of men getting smaller or bigger? Write down one reason to explain why this is
so.
- *Study Table 2 and write down anything else you notice.
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