Practice question · Put in order
Order the steps of an honest mobility analysis.
- Identify how much the occupational structure itself shifted
- Build the table: parents’ class by children’s class
- Compare fluidity across countries or decades
- Count absolute movement off the diagonal
- Compute odds ratios to isolate relative fluidity
Hints
- The raw movement must be measured before the structural component is removed.
- Comparison across countries comes last.
Show the answer
- Build the table: parents’ class by children’s class
- Count absolute movement off the diagonal
- Identify how much the occupational structure itself shifted
- Compute odds ratios to isolate relative fluidity
- Compare fluidity across countries or decades
Why
Table, raw movement, tide, residue, comparison, the pipeline that turns "my grandfather was a farmer" anecdotes into measurement.
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