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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:54:32 -0800
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- From: mmcginn@SFU.CA
- Subject: RE: SES Measure for Kids
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- > ...one indirect, but "face valid" measure of SES that kids could
- > probably use is to ask about household possessions, the presence or
- > absence of which would be correlated with SES. Examples could include
- > (I'm making this list up) indoor plumbing, how many bathrooms, how many
- > people share bedrooms, does family own stove, refrigerator, microwave,
- > VCR, TV (how many), family have a car (how many), telephone (how many),
- > etc., etc., etc.
-
- This may not be a very good indicator. The presence of some of these items
- is a matter of choice rather than SES. Not everyone *wants* to own cars,
- TVs and VCRs (I own none of the above, and not just because I am living off
- an RA salary). I wonder what the correlation between these items and SES
- would actually be? You would certainly want to investigate that before you
- attempted to use this list as an indicator of SES.
-
- Michelle McGinn
- Faculty of Education
- Simon Fraser University
-