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Title: Education: Comparisons of Absolute vs. Relative Measures

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Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: Education – as acquired skills and knowledge, as a set of associations, acquaintances, and friends, or as a form of credentials – figures so prominently that it would be rare to find a discussion of most topics of social inquiry-- prestige, employment, fertility, income and poverty, divorce, political participation, or attitudes –that did not include mention of education. Most commonly, education is incorporated in such analyses either using a continuous measure, such as years of education, or ordered discrete categories, distinguishing those with a particular set of credentials with those without. These measures explicitly recognize that educational achievement is an ordered hierarchy, but discussions usually ignore that a given level of education can may vary in how high or low it falls in the hierarchy depending on the age or period considered.

Url: http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/rsfcensus/papers/RelativeEducation.pdf

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Authors: Stiles, Jon

Publisher: University of California, Berkeley

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Topics: Education, Other

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