The CCES survey contains a host of questions that allow us to further investigate the lifestyle and ideological position of the respondent.
The social position of the respondent was measured by her education level (no formal education, primary, secondary, or higher education), literacy level (illiterate, partly literate, fully literate), her occupation, and the household's possession of basic assets and amenities.
Even though the number of respondents was limited, the questionnaire provides valuable information about the conditions for organic farming in the region due to the central positions of the respondents.
Alternative interpretations are that; first, the preference for information rather than services at schools reflects the experience and position of respondents; the majority are more familiar with schools as venues for provision of education and information, rather than locations for health services.
The variables reflecting socioeconomic position were educational level of the respondent, social class of the reference person in the household, and household economic income (table 1) [ 17].
The job positions of the factory respondents were high in president/vice president level (36.4 %) in Korea and in the design director level (22.7 %) in China.
First, we included an indicator of occupational position of the main breadwinner at respondents' age 10, using ten main occupational groups of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO).
When they were informed of the consensus position of economists, respondents were more likely to agree with them.
Socioeconomic position was measured using the level of education, which represents the highest level of completed education of the respondent.
The model was controlled for age, gender, experience and position of respondent.
We appreciate that limited prevocational training positions available to RCS graduates and the constraints of urban-centric specialty training programs have impacted on current workforce location in our study (for distribution of the current position of respondents see Figure 4).
