Suppose we know the Holland three-letter codes for a worker and for a workplace — for example, somebody assessed to be RCI may be working in an occupation considered to be CRS. This paper considers how to measure the similarity (or congruence) between the codes. Previous methods are briefly reviewed. Then it is shown how the familiar idea of correlation may be adapted to the problem. Some of the existing methods are shown to be special cases of the new approach.
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