The Government's new Socio-Economic Classification will replace the old government Social Class in the 2001 Census. Market researchers have always used their own system. The paper presents a practical assessment of the new SEC system against Social Grading by putting the new SEC matrix onto the data sets of the National Readership Survey and the British Household Panel Survey.

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社会分类——一个新的开始还是不太一样？

政府新的社会经济分类将取代 2001 年人口普查中的旧政府社会阶层。市场研究人员一直使用他们自己的系统。本文通过将新的 SEC 矩阵放入全国读者调查和英国家庭小组调查的数据集，针对社会评分对新的 SEC 系统进行了实际评估。