New Hungarian occupational prestige scale

Huszár, Ákos and Hajdu, Gábor and Sik, Endre and Nagy, Réka Klára (2023) New Hungarian occupational prestige scale. HUNGARIAN STATISTICAL REVIEW, 6 (2). pp. 12-36. ISSN 2630-9130

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Abstract

We aim to create in this paper a comprehensive prestige scale based on the 2016 microcensus supplementary survey on occupational prestige of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, where respondents have been requested to rate the prestige of 15 occupations (randomly selected from 173 occupations). Based on their answers, each occupation is assigned a relative prestige score. Furthermore, we created five additional scales that rank occupations according to earnings, social usefulness, education level, power and trendiness. First, we briefly summarise the characteristics of the occupational prestige scales in relation to other gradual measures of social status and then describe how the new prestige scales were created. Finally, we present the basic features of the new scales.

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