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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:28:01 -0500
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- From: Rick Adams <adamsr@AIS.ORG>
- Subject: Re: SES Measure for Kids
- In-Reply-To: <m0nH1as-000A7wC@ais.org> from "Stephanie Fishkin" at Jan 26,
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- Just as a concept for consideration. Most credit departments of
- larger firms (and presumably credit bureaus) have lists which essentiall
- "code" neighborhoods based on the economic class of the residents which are
- used for the purposes of credit approval. If you were to couple the data
- being supplied by the children with a cross reference to their address on
- such a list, you would have a pretty good means of "weeding out" those cases
- in which the responses didn't match the SES of the family.
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- I would suspect that many larger firms would be very willing to
- share that information with an academic institution for little or no cost as
- a "good will" gesture in the community. Stores such as Sears, Wards, etc.
- all have a tendancy to support local educational endeavors.
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