Response Errors of Nonblack Males in Models of the Stratification Process
作者:
WilliamT. Bielby,
RobertM. Hauser,
DavidL. Featherman,
期刊:
Journal of the American Statistical Association
(Taylor Available online 1977)
卷期:
Volume 72,
issue 360
页码: 723-735
ISSN:0162-1459
年代: 1977
DOI:10.1080/01621459.1977.10479948
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Social stratification;Occupational mobility;Structural equation model;Latent variables;Survey response error
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
We assess biases due to measurement errors in structural equation models of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Using data for nonblack males from the 1973 Occupational Changes in a Generation-II survey, we find that retrospective reports of status variables are as reliable as contemporaneous reports and that response errors are strictly random. When measurement errors are ignored, occupational returns to schooling are underestimated by about ten percent, the effects of some background variables are underestimated by as much as 19 percent, and residual variation in socioeconomic achievements is underestimated by as much as 16 percent.
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