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Table 5. Social Class by Sex of Respondent

CLASS Total % Male Female
1 Professionals 5.1 8.2 1.8
2 Managers and technical 29.9 31.0 28.7
3 Skilled non-manual 25.0 12.1 38.8
4 Skilled manual 18.6 30.0 6.5
5 Partly skilled 16.2 14.6 17.9
6 Unskilled 4.9 3.7 6.2
7 Armed forces/never worked 0.2 0.4 0.0
Total 100.0 51.6 48.4