Thanks to The Register, here is a nice graph of the decline of manufacturing in the UK since 1945. You'll notice one small problem with the "decline" bit.
And is also fairly explicit that a computer programmer working on the manufacture of aircraft engines is counted towards the value of manufacturing as an industry.
Sorry, I meant to say that I'd expect the 1940 value to be 8 rather than 40, if it's not taking inflation into account. I got it the wrong way round in the translation from brain to fingers.
Without knowing whether the figures do take inflation into account or not it's very hard to tell if they're meaningful or not.
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Date: 2010-02-22 02:44 pm (UTC)And is also fairly explicit that a computer programmer working on the manufacture of aircraft engines is counted towards the value of manufacturing as an industry.
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Date: 2010-02-22 02:48 pm (UTC)Without knowing whether the figures do take inflation into account or not it's very hard to tell if they're meaningful or not.