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Testing the universality of historical occupational stratification structures across time and space http://historyofwork.iisg.nl/ http://www.camsis.stir.ac.uk/hiscam/ Presentation to the ISA RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility Spring meeting, Nijmegen, May 11-14 th 2006. Paper summary.
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Testing the universality of historical occupational stratification structures across time and spacehttp://historyofwork.iisg.nl/http://www.camsis.stir.ac.uk/hiscam/Presentation to the ISA RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility Spring meeting, Nijmegen, May 11-14th 2006 HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 2006
Paper summary • - Universality or specificity? • - Yes and No • - Level of occupational detail? • - High and Low HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 2006
Historical data resources:marriage records for inter-generational occupational associations (HISCO) HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 2006
Social Interaction and Stratification • Goodman’s RC-II association models • CAMSIS: maximum specificity and detail HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 2006
GEODE - Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment • ..promises to end scheme operationalisation difficulties…! • Wide coverage: ‘Occupational information depository’ • E-Social Science, Stirling University, 2005-7 • Contact: paul.lambert@stirling.ac.uk / www.geode.stir.ac.uk Use of ‘Grid’ technologies to develop an internet based portal to facilitate data matching between source occupational data and occupational information resources such as social classification categories, stratification scale scores, segregation indexes, etc. HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 2006
Estimation process : lEM (Vermunt 1997) HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 2006
Summary: HIS-CAM scales • Universality is ok • Specificity, & high occ. detail, is justified • Statistically • Substantively • Specificity is problematic • operationalisations • measurement error HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 2006