Updating Occupational Prestige and Socioeconomic Scores: How the New Measures Measure up
By Keiko Nakao, Judith K. Treas. 1994
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- Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research (2013, background): “For example, Diemer (2009) cross-walked nominal occupational titles (e.g., dentist, truck driver) to numerical values on the Nakao and Treas (1994) index of occupational prestige (in this example—96 and 30).”
- Socioeconomic Status and College: How SES Affects College Experiences and Outcomes (2003, methodology): “I determined the students’ SES in 1985 using parental income, educational attainment, and occupational prestige obtained from the SIF (Nakao & Treas, 1994), carefully recoding these data into a SES variable that had a normal distribution and frequency.”
- Echoes of our upbringing: How growing up wealthy or poor relates to narcissism, leader behavior, and leader effectiveness (2016, methodology): “We used Duncan’s socioeconomic index (Duncan, 1961) as a measure of occupation prestige, as this index is widely considered to be one of the most valid measures (Nakao & Treas, 1994).”
- Transition to Employment: Role of the Family in Career Development (2007, methodology): “…< High school Disabled 29 diploma worker Kyle Unknown Manufacturing Some college Unemployed 27 Note: Blank cells indicate parent was not in the home during the participant’s high school years. aSEI scores based on the Nakao-Treas Socioeconomic Index (Nakao & Treas, 1994). employment outcomes.”
- Is a College Degree Still the Great Equalizer? Intergenerational Mobility across Levels of Schooling in the United States1 (2011, background): “Updated indexes recalibrate the weights attached to education and income, and account for the upgrading of the American occupational structure and for gender differences in occupational participation (Stevens and Featherman 1981; Nakao and Treas 1994; Hauser and Warren 1997).”