Dublin Opinion

These figures I’ve collated from the census returns, taking the broad industry groups as presented in the 1971 census and working backwards.

What that means is that, for example, in 1971 agriculture, forestry and fishing are grouped as one. In 1951 agriculture and fishing are separate, so for purposes of comparison I’ve merged them, etc, etc.

In 1966, however, there were slight changes in the composition of five of the broad groups which I cannot decipher from the information as listed in the returns, so I’ve presented the returns for 1961 as they appear in both 1961 and 1966. The groupings which don’t exactly match up are presented in red.

An excel of the table is here.

Don’t know if anyone else will find the table useful or interesting. I’ll be using it for the book myself, but just thought I’d put it up in case it ties into any research people are doing on employment in Ireland during that period.