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Constructing Classes:
Towards a New Social Classification for the UK
Edited by
David Rose and Karen OíReilly
>ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change
University of Essex
Constructing Classes reports progress to date on the
development of a new UK government social classification.
Currently the UK has two social classifications, Social
Class based upon Occupations and Socio-Economic Groups.
These classifications are widely-used across central and
local government, the private sector and in academic
research in fields as diverse as epidemiology, health
research, education, demography, sociology, geography and
economics. In 1994, the Office for Population Censuses and
Surveys (now Office for National Statistics) commissioned a
review of its social classifications from the Economic and
Social Research Council.
Constructing Classes provides details of the Review and of
the interim version of a proposed revised social
classification for use from the time of the 2001 population
census. It explains the conceptual and operational aspects
of the classification as well as the results of its initial
testing using health and earnings data. It also provides
details (including a diskette) of a new database on the 371
occupation unit groups of the Standard Occupational
Classification.
This book will be vital to all users of the current
UK government social and occupational classifications. In
addition, because the chapters explain the process of
conceptualising, operationalising, validating and testing a
major social scientific and policy tool, the book will be
of value as a teaching resource in university courses on
social inequality, economic sociology, labour markets,
health inequality, epidemiology, social policy, social
statistics and social science methodology.
Contents:
Constructing classes, David Rose and Karen OíReilly;
Social Class and the Standard Occupational
Classification, Peter Elias;
The ëGoldthorpeí Class Schema: some observations on conceptual
and operational issues in relation to the ESRC review of
government social classifications, John H Goldthorpe;
Social Class, SEG and Goldthorpe classes: how do they classify
individual occupations?, Jean Martin;
Criterion validation of the interim revised social classification,
Karen OíReilly and David Rose;
Insights about the non-employed, class and health: evidence from
the General Household Survey, Sara Arber;
Social variations in health: relationship of mortality to the
interim revised social classification, Ray Fitzpatrick et
al;
Earnings, occupations and social classification, Peter Elias
and Abigail McKnight;
A database of information on unit groups of the Standard
Occupational Classification, Abigail McKnight and Peter
Elias;
Constructing classes: the final phase, David Rose and Karen OíReilly.
Appendices:
ESRC Review of OPCS Social Classifications Phase 1 Report, David Rose;
Thinking about social classifications, David Rose;
Recommendations to ONS on 2001 Census, David Rose.
Publication details
A4, 195 pages + ix plus diskette. PB only
ISBN 0 86226 254 2
Publication date: November 1997
Published jointly by ESRC and ONS and available only from:
Janice Webb
ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ
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Constructing Classes:
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