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The Ausei06: A New Socioeconomic Index For Australia, Julie Mcmillan, Adrian Beavis, Frank Jones
The Ausei06: A New Socioeconomic Index For Australia, Julie Mcmillan, Adrian Beavis, Frank Jones
Julie McMillan
This article provides an overview of the development of a new occupational status scale, the Australian Socioeconomic Index 2006 (AUSE106). This is the latest in the series of ANU scales, which since 1965, have provided a means for researchers to convert data coded in accordance with official occupational classifications into occupational status scores. The ANU scales have been widely used in fields such as sociology, education, economics and health. The new scale has been developed in response to the introduction of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Recent changes in …