ABSTRACT
Russia is a country with a long tradition of occupation scales. The differences in the social status of aristocracy, merchants, intelligentsia and peasants were an important part of everyday life in imperial Russia. Social equality was one of the key elements of the official Soviet ideology that claimed that class inequalities were absent in the USSR. At the level of the official rhetoric, manual workers had high prestige and social standing. The major goal of this study is to construct a relational occupational scale for Russia. There are three major approaches to constructing occupational scales: prestige scales, socio-economic indices and relational scales. A CAMSIS scale exists for Russia. It was constructed with data from two waves of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS). Russia has been taking part in the ISSP since 1992. Occupation in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is coded according to the four-digit level of ISCO88, an international occupational classification developed by the ILO.
