Volume 4, Number 3 (Summer) 1969
Gordon, Jerome B. 1969. "Socioeconomic Status: A Re-Examination of Its Dimensions." Journal of Human Resources 4(3):343-359.
This article presents a review of the several existing techniques currently used to derive socioeconomic status scores from Census and other survey sources. Several tests of the determinants of socioeconomic status are presented for the Duncan, N.O.R.C., and Census S.E.S. scoring systems. The results of the several multiple regressions lead towards the development of a proposed Cobb-Douglas production function for estimating socioeconomic status.
This paper was completed while the author was Project Officer, Manpower and Population Program, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University. This paper was written with support of the Russell Sage Foundation. I would like to acknowledge the assistance of Fred Morgan and Orlando Rodriguez of my staff in handling the computer runs for the paper. I would also like to thank Professor Charles B. Nam of Florida State University, Paul Ritterband and Seymour Warkov of the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Oliver Bryk of Research Analysis Corporation, and C. Russell Hill of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity for their comments. I would especially like to thank Abram Jaffe, the Director of the Program, for his encouragement in this effort.
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