This study has proposed and examined an alternative approach, the estimation of a synthetic measure of individual wages among workers based on detailed occupation groups from a standard occupation classification.
This information was transformed according to a standard occupation grouping system into the following social group classification: socioeconomic group 1 (large-scale employers and officials of high or intermediate rank), group 2 (small-scale employers, lower-rank officials and supervisors), and group 3 (skilled and unskilled workers).
This information was transformed according to Carlson's standard occupation grouping system [ 20]: low social group (skilled and unskilled workers), medium social group (small-scale employers, lower rank officials, foremen) and high social group (large-scale employers and high or intermediate rank officials).
This information was transformed according to Carlson's standard occupation grouping system [ 24]: low social group (skilled and unskilled workers), medium social group (small-scale employers, lower rank officials, foremen) and high social group (large-scale employers and high or intermediate rank officials).
In fact I did not know anyone who did anything other than the standard occupations of working-class West Indians of the era: nursing, public transport, factory work and manual labour.
But for market research -- or accountancy, or quantity surveying, or refuse collection, or any of the other perfectly respectable, bog-standard occupations in the world -- to demand passion is a tall order.
By almost all standards, the occupation of defeated Japan was a remarkable success.
Craft skills and routine occupational skills can be measured by tests based on agreed standards, but occupations measurable in this way account only for a limited range of training activities.
Socioeconomic group, based on occupation, was determined by standard occupational classification (21).
Chef has become, to a certain type of urban adult, what astronaut is to a seven-year-old boy — the standard fantasy occupation.
