THE EUROPEAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION: A NEW SOCIAL CLASS SCHEMA FOR COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN RESEARCH

摘要: ABSTRACT As a result of an initiative by the European Statistical Office as part its Harmonisation Programme, prototype common Socio-economic Classification (ESeC) has been created. ESeC is categorical social class schema based on concept employment relations. The paper explains conceptual basis ESeC, describes categories classification and how they may be collapsed for analytic purposes, well indicating it operationalised. operational variants depending data available construction, are also discussed. In second some key findings comparative analyses which use to examine issues relating unemployment, education, poverty, deprivation health across EU summarised. These demonstrate potential major advance improved understanding patterns inequalities. such, this new should vital importan...