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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:33:33 CST
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- Subject: Re: SES Measure for Kids
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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.
-
- 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.
-
- --
- ------this is called red-lineing and i suspect that if there really is
- still any firms that do this they would not want to share the infor with
- some academic. If anything they would likely deny that they do it.
- It would be a very non-PC thing to do.
-
- Better would be go to the original source. Most univerisities have computer
- tapes from US Census which gives median household incomes at at least the
- census tract level, sometimes at the block level. Addresses can be
- matched to these. Economists do this all the time.
-
- -- gary carson
-