Missing Female Occupational Categories in the Soviet Censuses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4211081 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Paul Sacks (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 251-263 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2496950 |
| OpenAlex | W2324470854 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The 1959 and 1970 published Soviet censuses list several hundred categories of occupations. Yet far more types of employment exist than are indicated by this number of categories. TheDictionary of Occupational Titlespublished by the U.S. Department of Labor, for example, is composed of approximately 20,000 jobs. The sparsity of categories in any census is a product of the lengthy process in which (1) specific questions regarding employment are designed; (2) respondents interpret the questions and either answer or fail to answer them; (3) answers are coded into specific occupational categories; and (4) these categories are selected and sometimes grouped together for the purpose of the actual census publications. The selection and grouping of categories are of primary concern since here, as at earlier stages, the potential exists for deliberate or inadvertent distortions and for the compromise of the detail and precision of the census
Census · Compromise · Genealogy · Occupational prestige · Population · Product (mathematics · Selection (genetic algorithm · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Census and Population Estimation · Computer Science · Demography · History · Mathematics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |