Occupational Prestige Ratings from the 1989 General Social Survey

This data collection contains the prestige ratings that
respondents to the 1989 General Social Survey assigned to various
occupations. The purpose of the collection was to replicate the
benchmark study of occupational prestige conducted by Hodge, Siegel,
and Rossi (HSR) in 1964, while expanding the number of rated
occupations to include all 503 detailed occupational categories in the
1980 Census. Additional titles were added from the HSR study and
several other studies of occupational prestige, for a total of 704
occupational titles. Respondents were divided into 10 subsamples, with
each subsample rating 110 occupations. The first 40 titles presented to
each respondent were the same for all subsamples. As in the HSR study,
respondents were asked to rate the occupations on a scale of 1 to 9. To
promote comparability with the HSR study, both the nature of the task
respondents were asked to perform (ranking titles) and the wording of
the instructions were the same in both studies.