On the Measurement of Occupation in Social Surveys
- 1 November 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Methods & Research
- Vol. 2 (2) , 239-251
- https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417300200204
Abstract
Students of social inequality and stratification, especially those outside the discipline of sociology, frequently underestimate the quality of information on employment and occupation which can be elicited in social surveys. A brief overview of the current technology of occupation classification and scaling is offered in the hope of encouraging researchers to adopt more or less standard conventions which would render their work more reliable, valid, and comparable.Keywords
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