Validating the European Socio-economic Classification: Cross-Sectional and Dynamic Analysis of Income Poverty and Lifestyle Deprivation. ESRI WP201. June 2007

Whelan, Christopher T. and Maitre, Bertrand and Watson, Dorothy (2007) Validating the European Socio-economic Classification: Cross-Sectional and Dynamic Analysis of Income Poverty and Lifestyle Deprivation. ESRI WP201. June 2007. [Working Paper]

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Abstract

This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) Survey to validate ESeC in terms of poverty and deprivation in the countries of pre-enlargement Europe.2 The purpose of ESeC, and other social class schemes in the same tradition, as Goldthorpe (2002:213) observes, is to bring out the constraints and opportunities typical of different class positions particularly as they bear “on individuals security, stability and prospects as a precondition of constructing explanations as of empirical regularities”. A major concern of such class analysis is with the association between class and differential life-chances (Goldthorpe, 2002:21).

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