Inter-generation differences in occupation
A sample comparison, in England and Wales, of census and birth registration records
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4267407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernard Benjamin (0000-0002-5853-940X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1958 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 262 |
| Publication date | 1958-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2172531 |
| OpenAlex | W4230201794, W2058538269 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
As one of the steps taken to test the validity of the 1951 population census data in England and Wales some of the information on a sample of census schedules was compared with the relevant entries int he birth register for the persons whose names appeared on the schedules. In the course of this procedure it was possible to compare the occupation of the son at the time of the census with the occupation of the father when the son was born. This paper gives an account of the inter-generation changes in the occupational shifts involved in social mobility. Generally speaking, only one-quarter of the sons were following occupations either the same as that of the fater, or close enough to it to be within the same order of the classification of occupations. In these changes the main departures from selections of a “free choice” character were that agricultural workers' sons tended more often to choose manual occupations in woodwork, building and transport, etc; sons of fathers in mining and quarrying occupations showed a tendency to enter, as alternative employment, building, stationary engine driving, and labouring; there is a suggestion that rather more sons of workers in metal manufacture or engineering than would be expected took employment in commercial, etc., or clerical occupations; sons of fathers in commercial, finance and insurance occupations found their way more often into administration and managerial or professional and technical, or clerical occupations; sons of fathers in professional and technical occupations entered commercial, finance and insurance occupations more often than males in general; and sons of clerks showed a marked tendency to prefer professional and technical occupations. In terms of socio-economic groups the analysis shows a net generation shift toward the administrative, professional and managerial groups. In this net shift the major contributions, relative to their numbers and over and above a free choice selection, were made by the sons of shopkeepers, etc., and clerks
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| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 1977 - 2000 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |