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An investigation of the consistency of parental occupational information in UK birth records and a national social survey
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Connelly, Roxanne and Gayle, Vernon (2017) An investigation of the consistency of parental occupational information in UK birth records and a national social survey. European Sociological Review, 33 (2). pp. 240-256. doi:10.1093/esr/jcw060 ISSN 0266-7215.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw060
Abstract
In the UK new sources of administrative social science data are unfolding rapidly but the quality of these new forms of data for sociological research is yet to be established. We investigate the quality and consistency of the parental occupational information that is officially recorded on administrative birth records by undertaking a comparison with information collected from the same parents in the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). We detect a large amount of missing information in the birth records and a range of inconsistencies. We present an empirical analysis of MCS data using parental social class measures derived both from the birth records and the survey to assess the effects of these discrepancies. We conclude that parental occupational information from administrative birth records should not be assumed, a priori, to be suitable for sociological analyses and that further research should be undertaken into their consistency and accuracy.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Millennium Cohort Study -- Evaluation, Parents -- Longitudinal studies -- Great Britain, Occupations -- Longitudinal studies -- Great Britain, Social sciences -- Longitudinal studies -- Great Britain | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Sociological Review | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0266-7215 | ||||||
Official Date: | 25 January 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 33 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 240-256 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/esr/jcw060 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 December 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 March 2017 | ||||||
Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||||
Grant number: | ES/N011783/1 |
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