Summary information
Study title
Occupational Changes in a Generation (1962 and 1973)
Creator
Blau, Peter M. (University of Chicago, Ill. O. Duncan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Featherman, David L. (University of Wisconsin, Madison )
Hauser, Robert M. (University of Wisconsin, Madison )
Study number / PID
ZA0822, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.0822 (DOI)
Data access
Information not available
Series
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Abstract
Reasons and extent of social mobility in the United States.
Topics: Social and regional mobility; living together with parents at
the age of 16; training; industry branch of current employment; number
of working hours in the past week; weeks of work as well as
unemployment in the past year; longest employment practiced; form of
income; place of birth of parents.
Demography: age; sex; race; marital status; age und number of
siblings; position in sibling sequence; school education; occupation;
employment; income; social origins; city size; state; place of birth
Indices: occupational prestige scores after Siegel for respondent and
parents.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
08/1973 - 11/1973
Country
United States of America
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Not availableUniverse
Not availableSampling procedure
Multi-stage stratified cluster selection
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Mail survey
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
1973
Terms of data access
0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.
Related publications
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