Entry:

Nakao, Keiko; Hodge, Robert W.; and Treas, Judith, "On Revising Prestige Scores for All Occupations," GSS Methodological Report No. 69. Chicago: NORC, 1990.


Abstract:

New prestige scores for changes in 1980 occupation census codes should not be reworked from old data due to a number of methodological reasons. A plan to rework such scores based on 1989 GSS data is reviewed.

GSS Years:

ACT: New prestige scores for changes in 1980 occupation census codes should not be reworked from old data due to a number of methodological reasons. A plan to rework such scores based on 1989 GSS data is reviewed.

Other Data Sets:

NORC 1963-1965; Census 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
PRESTIGE

RS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970)