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USING OLD SOCIOECONOMIC DATA FOR DEFINING NORM GROUPS
Author(s) -
HOGAN THOMAS P.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of educational measurement
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.917
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-3984
pISSN - 0022-0655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1970.tb00722.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , norm (philosophy) , census , sample (material) , statistics , demography , geography , mathematics , psychology , sociology , political science , population , chemistry , chromatography , law
Socioeconomic data for communities are often used to define norm samples for tests. Standardization of the tests frequently occurs several years after the socioeconomic data are collected. Are the socioeconomic data sufficiently stable to be useful several years after they have been collected? To help answer this question, correlations were obtained between 1950 and 1960 census data for three socioeconomic variables for a sample of 200 communities. The socioeconomic data for 1950 and 1960 correlated approximately .90, indicating a high degree of relative stability over a 10‐year period. It was concluded that old socioeconomic data are useful for defining norm samples.