Design for a Replicate Study of Social Mobility in the United States.

A design for a 1973 study of the social mobility of men in the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States, the study has replicated the 1962 benchmark survey entitled "Occupational Changes in a Generation" by Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan. One project objective was the reestimation of the parameters of Blau and Duncan models for the process of social stratification--the intergenerational transmission of inequalities. Beyond replication for the purpose of analyzing social change, the design has ensured more precise estimates of stratification for blacks, more complete information on factors alleged to affect inter- and intragenerational mobility, and rudimentary estimates of differential stratification for married men and women currently living with their spouses. (Author/EA)