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Article Excerpt
A researcher's guide to the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification
David Rose and David J. Pevalin (eds)
Sage Publications, 2003
304pp, hard cover [pounds sterling]55
ISBN 7619 7322 2
In 1998, and as a result of a three-year research programme jointly sponsored by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which reviewed social classifications, a new social classification was introduced for use in UK government statistics.
Dr Gordon Marshall, chief executive of the ESRC, in a foreword to A Researcher's Guide, stressed the 'the decision to replace fundamental components of the UK's official socio-economic classifications ... was not taken lightly,' and only after 'detailed and systematic research by a team of some two dozen social scientists and survey research specialists, under the guidance of University of Essex sociologists David Lockwood and David Rose.' Dr Marshall comments that after systematic exploration of alternatives, the researchers involved in the project 'concluded that the new NS-SE categories should be derived from an existing social class schema, devised...
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