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. 2020 Sep 29;75(3):381–401. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2020.1823011

Table 3. Male occupational structure (percentage) by sector in Dorset and England, around 1800.

  Our sample: Dorset militia 1798–99* Dorset 1801** England 1801**
Primary sector 53.1 55.0 42.6
Secondary sector 29.9 35.0 42.0
Tertiary sector 17.0 10.0 15.4

Source: *authors’ own estimation; **Keibek 2017 (derived from probate inventories for 1801, using adjustment ratios for social bias calculated for 1813–20).