Title A researcher's guide to the national statistics socio-economic classification / edited by David Rose and David J. Pevalin

Published London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) : illustrations Contents The NS-SEC described ; The NS-SEC explained / David Rose and David J. Pevalin -- Empirical variation in employment relations and conditions / Abigail McKnight and Peter Elias -- Employment relations, employment conditions and the NS-SEC / Colin Mills and Geoffrey Evans -- Criterion validity and occupational classification : the seven economic relations measures and the NS-SEC / Anthony P.M. Coxon and Kimberly Fisher -- An initial exploration of the employment conditions of full-time and part-time workers using the NS-SEC / Kimberly Fisher -- Earnings, unemployment and the NS-SEC / Peter Elias and Abigail McKnight -- Examining mortality rates by the NS-SEC using death registration data and the 1991 census / Justine Fitzpatrick -- Social class and the incidence of low-weight births / David J. Pevalin -- Gender, health and occupational classifications in working and later life / Helen Cooper and Sara Arber -- Old and new social class measures : a comparison / Anthony Heath, Jean Martin and Roeland Beerten -- The problem of lower sales, service and clerical occupations ; The NS-SEC : overview and conclusions / David Rose and David J. Pevalin Summary Required reading for all users of government social classifications this volume evaluates how well the new system of socio-economic classification works in describing and explaining the relationships between social classes and key health and employment variables Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Social classes -- Research -- Great Britain. Social classes -- Great Britain -- Statistics. Social Class. SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Economic conditions -- 1997- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003606 -- Statistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001414 Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056945 -- Statistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001414 Genre/Form Statistics. Statistics. Statistics. Form Electronic book Author Pevalin, David J. Rose, David, 1947 February 17- ISBN 0857024728 (ebook) 9780857024725 (ebook)

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