Tables 3.8 - 3.11 show the numbers of the manual workforce classified into main trades, specialist building trades, operatives and building services and grouped as above into the 18 summary groups. The percentages given here are as a proportion of their summary group. Table 3.8 Distribution of the main trades by occupational group Main trades occupation n % Unweighted base Bricklayers 116723 69.8% 1146 Cavity wall tie installers 307 0.2% 15 Façade maintenance/cleaning 43885 26.3% 44 Mason paviors 1814 1.1% 110 Stonemasons 3970 2.4% 34 Retractory engineers 442 0.3% 23 Total bricklayers 167141 100.0% 1372 Carpenters and joiners (benchwork) 21747 10.3% 254 Carpenters and joiners (sitework) 155089 73.8% 1373 Fitted interior contractors 4251 2.0% 57 Formworkers 3506 1.7% 94 Shopfitters 11.6% 24 Wood machinists 1126 0.5% 30 wood trades 210139 100.0% 1832 Demountable partition erectors 1033 2.2% 16 Dry liners (Finishers) 2079 4.4% 66 Dry liners (Fixers) 18351 38.8% 535 Plasterers (Fibrous) 1638 3.5% 67 Plasterers (Solid) 51.2% 223 Total partition operatives 100.0% 907 Commercial painters 9301 20.5% 403 Painters and decorators 36093 79.5% 1039 Total painters and decorators 45394 100.0% 1442
Tables 3.8 - 3.11 show the numbers of the manual workforce classified into main trades, specialist building trades, operatives and building services and grouped as above into the 18 summary groups. The percentages given here are as a proportion of their summary group. Table 3.8 Distribution of the main trades by occupational group Main trades occupation n % Unweighted base Bricklayers 116723 69.8% 1146 Cavity wall tie installers 307 0.2% 15 Façade maintenance/cleaning 43885 26.3% 44 Mason paviors 1814 1.1% 110 Stonemasons 3970 2.4% 34 Retractory engineers 442 0.3% 23 Total bricklayers 167141 100.0% 1372 Carpenters and joiners (benchwork) 21747 10.3% 254 Carpenters and joiners (sitework) 155089 73.8% 1373 Fitted interior contractors 4251 2.0% 57 Formworkers 3506 1.7% 94 Shopfitters 11.6% 24 Wood machinists 1126 0.5% 30 wood trades 210139 100.0% 1832 Demountable partition erectors 1033 2.2% 16 Dry liners (Finishers) 2079 4.4% 66 Dry liners (Fixers) 18351 38.8% 535 Plasterers (Fibrous) 1638 3.5% 67 Plasterers (Solid) 51.2% 223 Total partition operatives 100.0% 907 Commercial painters 9301 20.5% 403 Painters and decorators 36093 79.5% 1039 Total painters and decorators 45394 100.0% 1442
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