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Estimating the Social Class of Towns
Author(s) -
Wilkins Leslie T.
Publication year - 1952
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2985828
Subject(s) - class (philosophy) , social class , sociology , mathematics , geography , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence , law
A measure of the social class of towns that is useful to businessmen and economists is the percentage of households in which the chief wage‐earner has a basic wage exceeding £ 7 10s. a week. Data are not available for determining this directly, but this article shows how the measure may be estimated from available data and gives a table of values for 140 large towns.