COR713c.ASC Duncan's 1950-basis SEI scores from 1950 Major Occupation Categories, some split by industry and/or Class-of-Worker Splits as in Blau and Dunacan 1967. From Duncan 1961b (Mimeo). Scores on Socioeconomic Index for Extended Major Occupation Groups, 1950 ======================================================================== Mean Score Occupation Group ---------------- Major Extended groups* groups** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional, technical, and kindred workers 75 -- Self-Employed -- 84 Salaried and other -- 73 Managers, officials, and prorpietors, exc. farm 57 -- Self-Employed -- 47 Salaried and other -- 68 Clerical and kindred workers 45 45 Sales workers 49 -- Retail sales -- 39 Others -- 66 Craftsmen, foremen, and kindred workers 31 -- Manufacturing -- 37 Construction -- 24 Other -- 30 Operatives and kindred workers 18 -- Manufacturing -- 17 Other -- 19 Service workers 17 -- Private-household workers -- 8 Other service workers -- 17 Laborers, except farm and mine 7 -- Manufacturing -- 8 Other -- 7 Farmers and farm managers 14 14 Farm laborers and foremen 9 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Source: Albert J. Reiss, Jr., with others, OCCUPATIONS AND SOCIAL STATUS. (New York: Free Press, 1961), Table VII-4. ** For data based on this classification, see Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, THE AMERICAN OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE. (New York: Wiley, 1967), Chapter 2.