Study title
Derivation Matrices for the Former Official Measures of Social Class, 2000, 2010 and 2020
Creator
Study number / PID
8965 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-8965-1 (DOI)
Data access
Open
Series
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The two former official measures of social class - Social Class by Occupation (SC), previously known as Registrar General's Social Class (RGSC), and Socio-economic Groups (SEG) - were discontinued in 2001 when the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC) was adopted as the sole official measure of social class in the UK.
Derivation Matrices for the Former Official Measures of Social Class, 2000, 2010 and 2020 provides derivation matrices for SC and SEG from the Standard Occupational Classifications 2000, 2010, and 2020 after their official discontinuation to enable their use in longitudinal data and comparative analyses.
Further information is available in the publications detailing the 2010 and 2020 work.
Main Topics:
Derivation matrices for SC and SEG are available from the Standard Occupational Classifications for 2000, 2010, and 2020. These derivation matrices can be used on any data with the relevant occupational data.
Topics
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Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Time dimension
Analysis unit
Universe
Derivation matrices can be used on data containing the relevant occupational information
Sampling procedure
Kind of data
Data collection mode
Funding information
Grant number
H501265031 (David Rose)
Grant number
SRG1920/100096 (David Pevalin)
Grant number
SG110232 (David Pevalin)
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2022
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.