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Social Stratification

Notes occupations into closed classes. The figure of 3.6 per cent may be compared with the extreme
possibilities : a minimum of zero for a class structure in which there is no inter-class mobility
whatsoever, and a maximum of 11.8 per cent for a structure with the same rate of changing of
occupation, but no constraints on mobility to other classes.
Compared with the other classes, Classes 1, employers, and 3, managers and professional, are
the most ‘closed’, that is, they lose the smallest proportion of their members to other classes
during the course of the year, and Class 5, clerical, is the most open. However, the differences
between classes in the proportions who experience mobility are not large. Subsequent tables
will show that for women the differences between classes in rates of outflow are much more
marked. The largest interclass flows as compared with the quasi-independence model are from
Class 5, clerical, to Class 3, professional and managerial, and vice versa; from Class 8, lower
manual, to Class 7, higher manual; and from Class 6, craft, to Class 8. In the main, these flows
are also the largest in terms of absolute magnitude.
Table 7.2 : KOS class by KOS Class one year ago, for men working full-time

Current KOS Class 1981

KOS Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
one year ago

1 Employers with 767 4 4 0 1 3 1 7
employees
(2.5) 3.0 0.1 –1.0 –1.2 0.4 –1.0 0.4
2 Self employed 3 3061 15 2 10 10 4 56
0.2 (3.2) –1.0 –1.3 –1.6 0.0 –2.7 4.2
3. Prof, managerial 9 11 10507 32 123 34 11 57
0.2 –1.4 (2.6) 4.1 9.8 –0.7 –5.0 –4.5
4 Technical 0 4 34 2082 29 9 4 17
–1.5 –0.4 3.5 (4.5) 3.4 –0.7 –2.6 –2.4
5 Clerical 11 12 211 42 8207 32 21 81
–0.3 –2.4 12.9 4.1 (4.8) –3.1 –5.3 –5.3
6 Craft 6 13 38 15 37 9797 33 173
–1.0 –1.0 –3.4 –0.4 –2.4 (3.1) –2.0 6.5
7 Higher manual 2 10 20 4 17 24 3651 86
–1.2 0.3 –2.5 –1.6 –2.2 0.6 (4.3) 4.0
8 Lower manual 28 60 62 13 81 121 219 15170
1.7 3.0 –7.4 –4.1 –4.1 2.7 10.6 (3.7)

Total 826 3175 10891 2190 8505 10032 3944 15647
(1.5) (5.8) (19.7) (4.0) (15.4) (18.2) (7.1) (28.3)

Key :
Upper value in each cell of the table is the count.
Lower values in the off-diagonal cells are the standardized residuals from fitting a model of quasi-independence
Lower values in the leading diagonal cells are the proportions of those in each class who changed from that
class to another during the year.

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