Hi Emma,
I've just had to code job titles (I'm assuming you're talking about coding
them to social class) for one of my studies. Registrar General's Social
Class (the I, II, III non-manual, III manual, IV, V system) has indeed been
updated and is now the National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification
(NS-SEC). If you're trying to derive social class using the full version
of the coding system, you're supposed to have asked questions other than
just job title. However, there's something called the Simplified version,
for which you only need job title
The website for the NS-SEC is here:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec/default.asp
I'd recommend reading all the documentation to get a sense of what the
classification's really about - it's a bit different to other, older social
class coding schemes
CASCOT (a handy little tool for turning job title into Standard Occupational
Classification code, which is one of the things you need for NS-SEC
categorisation) is here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/publications/software/cascot/
Please let me know if there's anything else I can help with
Best wishes,
Alison
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Alison Wright PhD
Research Fellow
Health Psychology (at Guy's)
Institute of Psychiatry
King's College London
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Guy's Campus
LONDON
SE1 9RT
Phone: 020 7188 2597
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> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:03:28 +0000
> From: Emma Daniells <[log in to unmask]>
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> <P>Hello everyone,</P>
> <P>I have collected the job titles of participants in my study (general
> population/ patients) and I need to code them somehow- someone suggested
> using social occupational coding but I thought this system had been
> updated.</P>
> <P>Do anyone have any information/ suggestions on what to do with this
> data?</P>
> <P>Thanks a lot,</P>
> <P>Emma.</P></DIV></div></html>
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