1. HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 20061 Testing the universality of historical occupational stratification structures across time and space http://historyofwork.iisg.nl/ http://www.camsis.stir.ac.uk/hiscam/ Presentation to the ISA RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility Spring meeting, Nijmegen, May 11-14 th 2006 http://historyofwork.iisg.nl/ http://www.camsis.stir.ac.uk/hiscam/ Paul LambertStirling University Richard Zijdeman, Ineke MaasUtrecht University Ken PrandyCardiff University Marco van LeeuwenInternational Institute for Social History

2. HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 20062 Paper summary Q - Universality or specificity? A - Yes and No Q - Level of occupational detail? A - High and Low UniversalSpecific S & L; M & vL 2005 (social interactions) SOCPO ; HISCLASS HIS-CAM – o1 (Wright / Goldt. /..) HIS-CAM – o2 (Chan / Goldthorpe) HIS-CAM – o3 HIS-CAM – o4 HISCAM v0.1 HIS-CAM – o5 (CAMSIS)

3. HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 20063 Historical data resources: marriage records for inter-generational occupational associations (HISCO) Netherlands ZA 1800-1923348k HSN 1812-193827k Germany Knodel/Imhof 1800-1938*12k France TRA 1803-1938131k Sweden DDB 1803-1889*19k Britain Miles/Vincent 1839-191419k FHS 1800-193842k Canada BALSAC 1800-1938500k*

4. HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 20064 Social Interaction and Stratification Goodmans RC-II association models CAMSIS: maximum specificity and detail

5. HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 20065 GEODE - Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment –..promises to end scheme operationalisation difficulties…! –Wide coverage: Occupational information depository –E-Social Science, Stirling University, 2005-7 Contact: paul.lambert@stirling.ac.uk / www.geode.stir.ac.ukpaul.lambert@stirling.ac.ukwww.geode.stir.ac.uk Use of Grid technologies to develop an internet based portal to facilitate data matching between source occupational data and occupational information resources such as social classification categories, stratification scale scores, segregation indexes, etc.

6. HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 20066 Estimation process : lEM (Vermunt 1997)

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8. HISCAM v0.1SIOPSHISCLASS Universal7576 o5 / o1o5 Netherlands97 / 585177 Germany87 / 232732 France96 / 786670 Sweden88 / 411162 Britain90 / 32149 Canada89 / 896780 Early99 / 977475 Late95 / 987477 Male92 / 926271 Female95 / 602545

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12. HIS-CAM - RC28 Spring 200612 Summary: HIS-CAM scales Universality is ok Specificity, & high occ. detail, is justified Statistically Substantively Specificity is problematic –operationalisations –measurement error