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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811966903321

Autore

Smith Amy <1960->

Titolo

Developing new national data on social mobility : a workshop summary / / Amy Smith, Rapporteur ; Committee on Population, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : The National Academies Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-309-29601-3

0-309-29599-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (68 p.)

Disciplina

305.5130973

Soggetti

Social mobility

United States Surveys Planning Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Studying Social Mobility""; ""3 Measurement Issues and Challenges""; ""4 Implications for a New Study""; ""Appendix A: Workshop Agenda""; ""Appendix B: Participants""; ""Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of SteeringCommittee Members and Presenters""; ""Committee on Population""; ""Committee on National Statistics""

Sommario/riassunto

"Developing New National Data on Social Mobility summarizes a workshop convened in June 2013 to consider options for a design for a new national survey on social mobility. The workshop was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and convened by the Committee on Population and the Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Research Council. Scientific experts from a variety of social and behavioral disciplines met to plan a new national survey on social mobility that will provide the first definitive evidence on recent and long-term trends in social mobility, with the objectives of coming to an understanding of the substantial advances in the methods and statistics for modeling mobility, in survey methodology and population-based survey



experiments, in opportunities to merge administrative and survey data, and in the techniques of measuring race, class, education, and income. The workshop also focused on documenting the state of understanding of the mechanisms through which inequality is generated in the past four decades. In the absence of a survey designed and dedicated to the collection of information to assess the status of social mobility, a wide variety of data sources designed for other purposes have been pressed into service in order to illuminate the state of social mobility and its trends. Developing New National Data on Social Mobility discusses the key decision points associated with launching a new national level survey of social mobility. This report considers various aspects of a major new national survey, including identifying relevant new theoretical perspectives and technical issues that have implications for modeling, measurement, and data collection."--Publisher's description.