Een beroepsprestigeschaal voor Nederland in de jaren tachtig

Samenvatting

A new occupational prestige scale, based on 116 occupational titles, is presented for the Netherlands in the 1980s. Questionnaire data from a nationwide adult survey (N = 753) were used to rank the titles according to prestige. Although data were gathered at an ordinal level, the scale itself was adapted to the interval level. For comparative purposes, scale values were also calculated in a way similar to a scale by F. van Heek et al (Sociale stijging en daling in Nederland 1 [Social Mobility in the Netherlands, Part I], Leiden, 1958), which is shown to be unsatisfactory by current standards. A key is presented enabling the researcher to assign prestige scores to all occupations listed by the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics. Using these methods, data from other types of surveys can be used more intensively. 4 Tables, 36 References. Modified HA