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Occupations
Here are the occupations of the Greathead and the accepted variants as they appear on the following census enumeration sheets as a percentage of the whole identified.

	1901	1891	1881	1871	1861	1851	1841

Clergy and Religious people	1.0	1.2	0.9	0.3	1.7	1.2	0.6
Teachers and scholars	6.3	25.4	33.5	30.4	28.9	21.3	0.6
Entertainers	2.0	1.5	1.5	1.6	1.3	2.0	1.2
Factory workers	11.8	6.3	11.7	9.1	10.1	13.1	25.2
Independent means	4.9	6.9	2.0	4.5	4.7	3.3	12.3
Domestic service	8.6	11.2	7.6	10.4	7.4	11.9	18.4
Land workers	8.2	9.4	11.7	10.7	13.8	20.1	18.4
Military	1.6	2.7	0.6	0.6	1.3	0.4	0.6
Professional	6.6	3.3	6.1	13.6	7.0	4.1	6.1
Local or government	12.2	6.3	3.5	0.6	3.0	2.0	3.1
Shop owners and workers	5.9	5.7	5.0	2.3	5.7	5.7	3.1
Tradesmen	26.0	16.3	10.5	12.3	11.7	11.9	9.8
Transport	4.9	3.6	5.5	3.2	3.4	2.9	0.6

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from 20 May 2007