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                    I.  DUNCAN S.E.I. AND NORC PRESTIGE SCALES 1976-1982
                   II.  1984 DUNCAN S.E.I.
                  III.  OCCUPATION S.E.S. SCORES 1996-1974


>> I. DUNCAN S.E.I. AND NORC PRESTIGE SCALES 1976-1982

       THIS NOTE IS USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH VARIABLES WHICH IDENTIFY
       OCCUPATION.

       THE DUNCAN S.E.I AND NORC PRESTIGE SCALES WERE DERIVED USING U.S.
       CENSUS OCCUPATION CODES:  1970 Census occupation codes for
       1976-1982 and 1980 Census occupation codes for 1984 (see part 2, p.1F).

       FOR 1976-1982 S.E.I. AND NORC SCORES, THERE IS ONE (1) IMPLIED
       DECIMAL IN THE RIGHT-MOST COLUMN BELOW AND IN THE DATA.

  (categories appear in ascending order of 1970 U.S. Census occupation codes)

      1970    |  DUNCAN   |   NORC
      U.S.    |  SEI      | PRESTIGE
      CENSUS  |   1976-   |   1976-
      OCCUP.  |   1982    |   1982

              PROFESSIONAL, TECHNICAL AND KINDRED WORKERS, 1976-1982
      --
      001      769         560     accountants
      002      853         667     architects

          Computer Specialists
      003      650       506  computer programmers
      004      650       506  computer systems analysts
      005      650       506  computer specialists

          Engineers
      006      870       711  aeronautical and astronautical engineers
      010      899       672  chemical engineers
      011      840       678  civil engineers
      012      840       694  electrical and electronic engineers
      013      855       556  industrial engineers
      014      802       621  mechanical engineers
      015      831       584  metallurgical and materials engineers
      020      850       616  mining engineers
      021      810       571  petroleum engineers
      022      870       506  sales engineers
      023      869       670  engineers

     024      830       539  farm management advisors
     025       480       539  foresters and conservationists
     026       830       539  home management advisors

          Lawyers and Judges
     030       930       757  judges
     031       923       751  lawyers

          Librarians, Archivists, and Curators
     032       600       546  librarians
     033       746       596  archivists and curators

          Mathematical Specialists
     034       810       554  actuaries
     035       800       650  mathematicians
     036       810       554  statisticians

          Life and Physical Scientists
     042       800       558  agricultural scientists
     043       620       470  atmospheric and space scientists
     044       800       677  biological scientists
     045       794       673  chemists
     051       800       672  geologists
     052       800       672  marine scientists
     053       800       738  physicists and astronomers
     054       774       651  life and physical scientists

     055       657       508  operations and systems researchers and analysts
     056       824       552  personnel and labor relations workers

          Physicians, Dentists, and Related Practitioners
     061       750       600  chiropractors
     062       960       736  dentists
     063       790       620  optometrists
     064       814       603  pharmacists
     065       921       812  physicians, medical and osteopathic
     071       580       367  podiatrists
     072       780       597  veterinarians
     073       580       367  health practitioners

          Nurses, Dieticians, and Therapists
     074       390       521  dietitians
     075       443       601  registered nurses
     076       589       385  therapists


          Health Technologists and Technicians
     080       480       610  clinical laboratory technologists and
                                 technicians
     081       480       610  dental hygienists
     082       600       546  health record technologists and technicians
     083       480       610  radiologic technologists and technicians
     084       480       610  therapy assistants
     085       552       511  health technologists and technicians

          Religious Workers
     086       520       690  clergymen
     090       571       546  religious workers

          Social Scientists
     091       743       535  economists
     092       810       714  political scientists
     093       810       714  psychologists
     094       810       714  sociologists
     095       650       506  urban and regional planners
     096       810       656  social scientists

          Social and Recreation Workers
     100       640       524  social workers
     101       670       486  recreation workers

          Teachers, College and University
     102       840       783  agriculture teachers
     103       840       783  atmospheric, earth, marine, and space teachers
     104       840       783  biology teachers
     105       840       783  chemistry teachers
     110       840       783  physics teachers
     111       840       783  engineering teachers
     112       840       783  mathematics teachers
     113       840       783  health specialties teachers
     114       840       783  psychology teachers
     115       840       783  business and commerce teachers
     116       840       783  economics teachers
     120       840       783  history teachers
     121       840       783  sociology teachers
     122       840       783  social science teachers
     123       556       486  art, drama, and music teachers
     124       640       532  coaches and physical education teachers
     125       840       783  education teachers
     126       840       783  english teachers
     130       840       783  foreign language teachers
     131       720       532  home economics teachers
     132       840       783  law teachers
     133       840       783  theology teachers
     134       840       783  trade, industrial, and technical teachers
     135       840       783  miscellaneous teachers, college and university
     140       840       783  teachers, college and university, subject
                                not specified

          Teachers, except College and University
     141       643       439  adult education teachers
     142       714       592  elementary school teachers
     143       720       561  prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers
     144       705       601  secondary school teachers
     145       577       749  teachers, except college and university

          Engineering and Science Technicians
     150       620       472  agriculture and biological technicians, except
                              health
     151       620       470  chemical technicians
     152       670       561  draftsmen
     153       620       515  electrical and electronic engineering
                                   technicians
     154       640       494  industrial engineering technicians
     155       620       470  mechanical engineering technicians
     156       530       468  mathematical technicians
     161       484       531  surveyors
     162       620       470  engineering and science technicians

          Technicians, except Health, and Engineering and Science
     163       790       701  airplane pilots
     164       690       428  air traffic controllers
     165       603       519  embalmers
     170       480       482  flight engineers
     171       690       428  radio operators
     172       620       470  tool programmers, numerical control
     173       620       472  technicians
     174       650       506  vocational and educational counselors

          Writers, Artists, and Entertainers
     175       600       550  actors
     180       602       521  athletes and kindred workers
     181       760       598  authors
     182       450       376  dancers
     183       704       565  designers
     184       820       512  editors and reporters
     185       520       460  musicians and composers
     190       670       562  painters and sculptors
     191       500       405  photographers
     192       820       567  public relations men and publicity writers
     193       650       506  radio and television announcers
     194       454       412  writers, artists, and entertainers

     195       650       506  research workers, not specified

        MANAGERS AND ADMINISTRATORS, EXCEPT FARM, 1976-1982

     201       588       538  assessors, controllers, and treasurers; local
                                public administration
     202       800       666  bank officers and financial managers
     203       503       429  buyers and shippers, farm products
     205       721       500  buyers, wholesale and retail trade
     210       740       488  credit men
     211       590       522  funeral directors
     212       569       594  health administrators
     213       575       396  construction inspectors, public administration
     215       666       423  inspectors, except construction, public
                                administration
     216       320       383  managers and superintendents, building
     220       731       560  office managers
     221       499       567  officers, pilots, and pursers; ship
     222       665       603  officials and administrators; public
                                administration
     223       600       484  officials of lodges, societies, and unions
     224       608       583  postmasters and mail superintendents
     225       748       464  purchasing agents and buyers
     226       582       409  railroad conductors
     230       381       389  restaurant, cafeteria and bar managers
     231       698       478  sales managers and department heads, retail
                                trade
     233       746       542  sales managers, except retail trade
     235       771       696  school administrators, college
     240       717       616  school administrators, elementary and secondary
     245       617       507  managers and administrators

          SALES WORKERS 1976-1982

     260       661       423  advertising agents and salesmen
     261       400       319  auctioneers
     262       381       306  demonstrators
     264       129       202  hucksters and peddlers
     265       660       468  insurance agents, brokers, and underwriters
     266       270       154  newsboys
     270       620       440  real estate agents and brokers
     271       724       513  stock and bond salesmen
     280       494       354  salesmen and sales clerks
     281       650       491  sales representatives, manufacturing industries
     282       609       399  sales representatives, wholesale trade
     283       390       286  sales clerks, retail trade
     284       390       286  salesmen, retail trade
     285       522       354  salesmen of services and construction

           CLERICAL AND KINDRED WORKERS, 1976-1982

     301       518       490  bank tellers
     303       440       362  billing clerks
     305       509       474  bookkeepers
     310       439       310  cashiers
     311       440       314  clerical assistants, social welfare
     312       438       360  clerical supervisors
     313       425       279  collectors, bill and account
     314       440       362  counter clerks, except food
     315       401       334  dispatchers and starters, vehicle
     320       440       362  enumerators and interviewers
     321       562       412  estimators and investigators
     323       436       360  expediters and production controllers
     325       440       308  file clerks
     326       621       476  insurance adjusters, examiners, and
                                investigators
     330       431       397  library attendants and assistants
     331       530       423  mail carriers, post office
     332       433       355  mail handlers, except post office
     333       282       A93  messengers and office boys
     334       440       362  meter readers, utilities

           Office Machine Operators
     341       449       443  bookkeeping and billing machine operators
     342       450       449  calculating machine operators
     343       450       449  computer and peripheral equipment operators
     344       450       449  duplicating machine operators
     345       450       449  keypunch operators
     350       450       449  tabulating machine operators
     355       450       449  office machine operators
     360       440       413  payroll and timekeeping clerks
     361       446       424  postal clerks
     362       440       362  proofreaders
     363       678       430  real estate appraisers
     364       440       389  receptionists

          Secretaries
     370       610       458  secretaries, legal
     371       610       458  secretaries, medical
     372       610       458  secretaries

     374       241       299  shipping and receiving clerks
     375       439       360  statistical clerks
     376       610       433  stenographers
     381       439       252  stock clerks and storekeepers
     382       624       488  teacher aides, except school monitors
     383       220       298  telegraph messengers
     384       470       435  telegraph operators
     385       450       404  telephone operators
     390       598       354  ticket, station, and express agents
     391       610       413  typists
     392       418       354  weighers
     394       437       365  miscellaneous clerical workers
     395       440       362  not specified clerical workers

          CRAFTSMEN AND KINDRED WORKERS, 1976-1982

     401       216       325  automobile accessories installers
     402       217       338  bakers
     403       160       355  blacksmiths
     404       326       306  boilermakers
     405       380       314  bookbinders
     410       270       357  brickmasons and stonemasons
     411       320       408  brickmasons and stonemasons, apprentices
     412       197       323  bulldozer operators
     413       223       381  cabinetmakers
     415       189       396  carpenters
     416       310       408  carpenter apprentices
     420       120       328  carpet installers
     421       190       316  cement and concrete finishers
     422       520       380  compositors and typesetters
     423       400       408  printing trades apprentices, except pressmen
     424       210       387  cranemen, derrickmen, and hoistmen
     425       400       374  decorators and window dressers
     426       480       610  dental laboratory technicians
     430       440       492  electricians
     431       370       408  electrician apprentices
     433       490       392  electric power linemen and cablemen
     434       550       380  electrotypers and stereotypers
     435       470       412  engravers, except photoengravers
     436       228       315  excavating, grading, and road machine operator;
                              except bulldozer
     440       174       318  floor layers, except tile setters
     441       495       453  foremen
     442       228       355  forgemen and hammermen
     443       178       291  furniture and wood finishers
     444       334       323  furriers
     445       253       267  glaziers
     446       217       353  heat treaters, annealers, and temperers
     450       425       310  inspectors, scalers, and graders; log and lumber
     452       410       313  inspectors
     453       364       375  jewelers and watchmakers
     454       335       464  job and die setters, metal
     455       578       508  locomotive engineers
     456       450       362  locomotive firemen
     461       329       477  machinists
     462       410       408  machinist apprentices

          Mechanics and Repairmen
     470       270       367  air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration
     471       480       482  aircraft
     472       190       367  automobile body repairmen
     473       190       367  automobile mechanics
     474       250       408  automobile mechanic apprentices
     475       270       408  data processing machine repairmen
     480       270       326  farm implement
     481       266       328  heavy equipment mechanics, including diesel
     482       270       326  household appliance and accessory installers and
                              mechanics
     483       100       304  loom fixers
     484       359       338  office machine
     485       360       350  radio and television
     486       205       356  railroad and car shop
     491       340       408  mechanic, except auto, apprentices
     492       265       328  miscellaneous mechanics and repairmen
     495       270       326  not specified mechanics and repairmen
     501       190       252  millers; grain, flour, and feed
     502       310       403  millwrights
     503       120       391  molders, metal
     504       330       408  molder apprentices
     505       430       339  motion picture projectionists
     506       390       514  opticians, and lens grinders and polishers
     510       164       298  painters, construction and maintenance
     511       290       408  painter apprentices
     512       135       275  paperhangers
     514       430       387  pattern and model makers, except paper
     515       611       397  photoengravers and lithographers
     516       380       320  piano and organ tuners and repairmen
     520       250       332  plasterers
     521       290       408  plasterer apprentices
     522       340       406  plumbers and pipe fitters
     523       330       408  plumber and pipe fitter apprentices
     525       500       388  power station operators
     530       456       391  pressmen and plate printers, printing
     531       400       408  pressman apprentices
     533       220       360  rollers and finishers, metal
     534       151       315  roofers and slaters
     535       330       368  sheetmetal workers and tinsmiths
     536       330       408  sheetmetal apprentices
     540       340       355  shipfitters
     542       119       326  shoe repairmen
     543       168       307  sign painters and letterers
     545       452       329  stationary engineers
     546       240       317  stone cutters and stone carvers
     550       334       356  structural metal craftsmen
     551       214       340  tailors
     552       488       391  telephone installers and repairmen
     554       490       392  telephone linemen and splicers
     560       282       384  tile setters
     561       492       423  tool or die makers
     562       410       408  tool and die maker apprentices
     563       212       299  upholsterers
     571       346       408  specified craft apprentices
     572       390       408  not specified apprentices
     575       253       417  craftsmen and kindred workers

                      OPERATIVES, EXCEPT TRANSPORT, 1976-1982

     601       320       284  asbestos and insulation workers
     602       172       275  assemblers
     603       110       321  blasters and powdermen
     604       161       235  bottling and canning operatives
     605       250       394  chainmen, rodmen, and axmen; surveying
     610       184       361  checkers, examiners, and inspectors;
                              manufacturing
     611       168       207  clothing ironers and pressers
     612       189       285  cutting operatives
     613       224       310  dressmakers and seamstresses, except factory
     614       216       262  drillers, earth
     615       244       363  dry wall installers and lathers
     620       620       250  dyers
     621       187       235  filers, polishers, sanders, and buffers
     622       181       329  furnacemen, smeltermen, and pourers
     623       179       212  garage workers and gas station attendants
     624       166       326  graders and sorters, manufacturing
     625       137       245  produce graders and packers, except factory and
                              farm
     626       290       329  heaters, metal

     630       150       182  laundry and dry cleaning operatives
     631       288       320  meat cutters and butchers, except manufacturing
     633       162       235  meat cutters and butchers, manufacturing
     634       180       194  meat wrappers, retail trade
     635       197       302  metal platers
     636       460       334  milliners
     640       165       264  mine operatives
     641       173       273  mixing operatives
     642       150       242  oilers and greasers, except auto
     643       181       195  packers and wrappers, except meat and produce
     644       181       288  painters, manufactured articles
     645       412       355  photographic process workers

          Precision Machine Operatives
     650       220       318  drill press operatives
     651       219       190  grinding machine operatives
     652       216       319  lathe and milling machine operatives
     653       209       311  precision machine operatives
     656       195       303  punch and stamping press operatives
     660       206       315  riveters and fasteners
     661       160       337  sailors and deckhands
     662       049       276  sawyers
     663       182       251  sewers and stitchers
     664       092       316  shoemaking machine operatives
     665       244       361  solderers
     666       166       317  stationary firemen

          Textile Operatives
     670       033       289  carding, lapping, and combing operatives
     671       210       294  knitters, loopers, and toppers
     672       041       282  spinners, twisters, and winders
     673       059       251  weavers
     674       086       288  textile operatives
     --
     680       240       401  welders and flame cutters
     681       217       336  winding operatives
     690       190       285  machine operatives, miscellaneous specified
     692       193       293  machine operatives, not specified
     694       188       289  miscellaneous operatives
     695       195       291  not specified operatives

             TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT OPERATIVES, 1976-1982

     701       240       368  boatmen and canalmen
     703       240       324  bus drivers
     704       325       280  conductors and motormen, urban rail transit
     705       310       283  deliverymen and routemen
     706       168       284  fork lift and tow motor operatives
     710       030       272  motormen; mine, factory, logging camp, etc.
     711       188       220  parking attendants
     712       420       347  railroad brakemen
     713       440       328  railroad switchmen
     714       100       215  taxicab drivers and chauffeurs
     715       151       321  truck drivers

                         LABORERS, EXCEPT FARM, 1976-1982

     740       175       303  animal caretakers, except farm
     750       230       000  carpenters' helpers
     751       071       174  construction laborers, except carpenters'
                                 helpers
     752       303       000  fishermen and oystermen
     753       089       190  freight and material handlers
     754       060       173  garbage collectors
     755       109       221  gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm
     760       110       244  longshoremen and stevedores
     761       041       259  lumbermen, raftsmen, and woodchoppers
     762       173       207  stock handlers
     763       080       122  teamsters
     764       086       185  vehicle washers and equipment cleaners
     770       083       203  warehousemen
     780       082       191  miscellaneous laborers
     785       083       175  not specified laborers

                         FARMERS AND FARM MANAGERS, 1976-1982

     801       140       407  farmers (owners and tenants)
     802       360       437  farm managers

                  FARM LABORERS AND FARM FOREMEN, 1976-1982

     821       200       350  farm foremen
     822       063       188  farm laborers, wage workers
     823       170       185  farm laborers, unpaid family workers
     824       220       268  farm service laborers, self-employed

            SERVICE WORKERS, EXCEPT PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD, 1976-1982

          Cleaning Service Workers
     901       116       141  chambermaids and maids, except private household
     902       098       174  cleaners and charwomen
     903       125       193  janitors and sextons

          Food Service Workers
     910       190       199  bartenders
     911       110       144  busboys
     912       150       264  cooks, except private household
     913       110       218  dishwashers
     914       170       154  food counter and fountain workers
     915       160       203  waiters
     916       110       208  food service workers, except private household

          Health Service Workers
     921       380       478  dental assistants
     922       294       405  health aides, except nursing
     923       510       451  health trainees
     924       370       233  lay midwives
     925       135       364  nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
     926       220       419  practical nurses

          Personal Service Workers
     931       310       364  airline stewardesses
     932       195       164  attendants, recreation and amusement
     933       288       225  attendants, personal service
     934       079       175  baggage porters and bellhops
     935       170       379  barbers
     940       300       221  boarding and lodging house keepers
     941       080       093  bootblacks
     942       282       241  child care workers, except private household
     943       100       209  elevator operators
     944       170       332  hairdressers and cosmetologists
     945       310       408  personal service apprentices
     950       310       364  housekeepers, except private household
     952       260       141  school monitors
     953       250       149  ushers, recreation and amusement
     954       110       144  welfare service aides

          Protective Service Workers
     960       175       245  crossing guards and bridge tenders
     961       370       438  firemen, fire protection
     962       182       223  guards and watchmen
     963       210       458  marshals and constables
     964       404       477  policemen and detectives
     965       340       550  sheriffs and bailiffs

                PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD WORKERS, 1976-1982

     980       070       229  child care workers, private household
     981       070       180  cooks, private household
     982       186       247  housekeepers, private household
     983       120       176  laundresses, private household
     984       070       180  maids and servants, private household


Walter Mebane 2005-11-03