The table below describes the number of employees and factories in England and Wales from 1851 to 1901.

The given data shows the total

number

of

employees

and

factories

in England and Wales from 1851 to 1901. The table

also

shows the breakdown

number

of male and female

employees

during the above-mentioned period.

Overall

, it was observed that the

number

of

factories

spiked almost three times from around 200 in 1851 to 600 in 1901.

Conversely

, the

number

of

employees

dropped significantly from 477,100 to 61,000 during the same period.

Furthermore

, it was

also

noticed that the

number

of male

employees

was generally higher than the female ones, with an exception that happened in 1861 when the

number

of female workers was 30 thousand more than the males. Interestingly, the data shows that in 1871 there was a sudden phenomenal increase in the

number

of

factories

. Within just 10 years, the value increased by 300% from approximately 227 in 1861 to 622 in 1871. Since

then

, the

number

of

factories

was

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relatively stable with only around 100 fluctuations each decade until 1901.

However

, a different pattern was shown in the

number

of

employees

within the same period of time. The value dropped by half within only the first 10 years and kept falling by around 20 thousand each decade. It reached its lowest point at 61,000

employees

in 1901.