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Updating Occupational Prestige and Socioeconomic Scores: How the New Measures Measure up

1994; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 24; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/270978

1467-9531

Keiko Nakao, Judith Treas,

Education Systems and Policy

A quarter century replication of occupational prestige studies from the 1960s permitted the development of new occupational prestige and socioeconomic status scales keyed to the 1980 occupational classification system. This paper describes the design of the 1989 General Social Survey module on occupational prestige and evaluates the quality of its data. The new scale is shown to diverge from earlier scales in small but systematic ways. Substantive analyses based on respondents in the 1989 survey explore the practical implications of scale differences. (authors)