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Measuring Socioeconomic Status in Studies of Child Development

Measuring Socioeconomic Status in Studies of Child Development Income is more difficult to measure fully and accurately than occupation. Detailed occupational codes may be mapped into standard socioeconomic scales, and occupational status is related to other variables in much the same way as repeated or long‐term measures of income. For these reasons, whether or not an attempt has been made to measure income, the measurement of socioeconomic status may be improved by ascertaining the occupation (and industry) of a job held by 1 or both parents. Income and household composition are preferable to the official poverty line in classifying economic standing, and housing tenure is a simple and powerful measure of economic consumption. Wherever possible, paternal as well as maternal education should be ascertained. However well they are measured, race‐ethnicity and socioeconomic status do not capture all of the effects of family background. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Child Development Wiley

Measuring Socioeconomic Status in Studies of Child Development

Hauser, Robert M.
Child Development , Volume 65 (6) – Dec 1, 1994
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Copyright © 1994 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0009-3920
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1467-8624
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10.1111/j.1467-8624.1994.tb00834.x
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Abstract

Income is more difficult to measure fully and accurately than occupation. Detailed occupational codes may be mapped into standard socioeconomic scales, and occupational status is related to other variables in much the same way as repeated or long‐term measures of income. For these reasons, whether or not an attempt has been made to measure income, the measurement of socioeconomic status may be improved by ascertaining the occupation (and industry) of a job held by 1 or both parents. Income and household composition are preferable to the official poverty line in classifying economic standing, and housing tenure is a simple and powerful measure of economic consumption. Wherever possible, paternal as well as maternal education should be ascertained. However well they are measured, race‐ethnicity and socioeconomic status do not capture all of the effects of family background.

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Child Development – Wiley

Published: Dec 1, 1994

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