A Researcher's Guide to the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification

David J. Pevalin is Senior Research Officer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THE NATIONAL STATISTICS SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION The NS-SEC Described - David Rose and David J Pevalin The NS-SEC Explained - David Rose and David J Pevalin PART TWO: THE NS-SEC AS A MEASURE OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS - David Rose and David J Pevalin Empirical Variation in Employment Relations and Conditions - Abigail McKnight and Peter Elias Employment Relations, Employment Conditions and the NS-SEC - Colin Mills and Geoffrey Evans Criterion Validity and Occupational Classification - Anthony P M Coxon and Kimberly Fisher The Seven Economic Relations Measures and the NS-SEC An Initial Exploration of the Employment Conditions of Full-Time and Part-Time Workers Using the NS-SEC - Kimberly Fisher PART THREE: CONSTRUCT VALIDATION Earnings, Unemployment and the NS-SEC - Peter Elias and Abigail McKnight Examining Mortality Rates by NS-SEC Using Death Registration Data and the 1991 Census - Justine Fitzpatrick Social Class and the Incidence of Low-weight Births - David J Pevalin Gender, Health and Occupational Classifications in Working and Later Life - Helen Cooper and Sara Arber Old and New Social Class Measures - Anthony Heath, Jean Martin and Roeland Beerten A Comparison PART FOUR: FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON THE NS-SEC The Problem of Lower Sales, Services and Clerical Occupations - David Rose and David J Pevalin The NS-SEC - David Rose and David J Pevalin Overview and Conclusions

`Health researchers in the US and more globally would do well to study this book and consider its implications for monitoring and analyzing socioeconomic inequalities in health within and across diverse countries' - Journal of Public Health Policy