ABSTRACT
Occupational stratification is widely recognised as one of the backbones of classic and modern sociology. From the construction of the first status scale to today, a vast body of knowledge has been produced concerning the different ways to conceptualise and measure the dimensions of stratification. Researchers that use the relational method support their choice mainly by pointing to the greater objectivity of the information base used to create the scale. The data set used for estimating scores of the CAMSIS-IT scale is made up of the first and third waves of the Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS) fielded in 2006 by the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT); this survey runs once every quarter on partially overlapping samples. In practical terms, an RC-II association model typically estimates a parameter accounting for the overall degree of association between rows and columns. This set of parameters can be constrained in various ways to achieve a meaningful and parsimonious representation of the observed data.
