Students of social inequality and stratification, especially those outside the
discipline of sociology, frequently underestimate the quality of information
on employment and occupation which can be elicited in social surveys. A
brief overview of the current technology of occupation classification and
scaling is offered in the hope of encouraging researchers to adopt more or less
standard conventions which would render their work more reliable, valid, and
comparable.
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