Rejoinder to Richard Clayton.

This article presents the author's reply to Richard Clayton on his view regarding the author's paper "Intragenerational Occupational Mobility and Visiting With Kin and Friend." The author states that it is irritating to find insufficient information in a research paper on which a judgment as to the adequacy of the analysis presented can be based. Although certain data are often so clearly necessary that little debate is possible, the amount of detail needed may often be a matter of debate. The information in question was included in the longer original version of the paper, but as there was a need to shorten the paper for publication in this journal the more detailed presentation of the data was summarized. The main purpose of the original analysis of the data (portions of which are reanalyzed by Clayton) was to explore a few ideas about the consequences of mobility for participation in interpersonal relationships. The interpretation and explanation diverges from the one described above in regards to the exact effect one's position in the status structure has on the relationship between mobility and visiting with siblings.