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- Title
NOTES.
- Authors
Jones, F. Lancaster
- Abstract
Over the last twenty years there have been numerous proposals about the best way to measure occupational mobility between the generations. A good deal of subsequent discussion of these indices has focussed on the fact that measures based merely on the concept of statistical independence take values which are not independent of the marginal distributions. Standard criticisms of the Durbin-Yasuda index have been that it has an unstable upper limit and that it is difficult to give the index a clear meaning except when it equals 0 or 1. In this article the author suggests that neither of these criticisms is particularly serious. This article is simply an extension of social scientists S. Yasuda's and Raymond Boudon's original discussion. It claims no originality except in being less abstract, nontechnical, and in providing a reconciliation of alternative ways of characterizing mobility matrices. The definition of structural mobility is strictly formal and does not address the problem of how the occupational structure was in fact transformed.
- Subjects
OCCUPATIONAL mobility; SOCIAL science methodology; ECONOMIC indicators; INDEXES; QUANTITATIVE research; SOCIAL structure
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 1975, Vol 9, Issue 4, p361
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article