In the context of the ESeC (European Socio-Economic Classification) project, the objective was to generate a conceptually lucid, validated, and easily implemented European socio-economic classification of individuals and households.
ESeC bears a close resemblance to Erikson’s and Goldthorpe’s widely used class scheme. This substantially improves comparative research in a number of research fields in the area of social structure and social change in European societies, because it is used in various, regularly completed major data collections (e.g. labor, income and consumption surveys) of European Statistical Offices or in the European Social Survey.
The ESeC project was directed by David Rose (University of Essex) and conducted by teams of researchers based in several countries. The German project partners were based at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (Walter Müller, Reinhard Pollak, Cornelia Hausen, Jean-Marie Jungblut) and at GESIS (Heike Wirth).
Project duration
2004 - 2007
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