The Application of Information Theory to the Analysis of Occupational Mobility in Egypt | ||
The Egyptian Statistical Journal | ||
Article 1, Volume 29, Issue 2, December 1985, Pages 1-24 PDF (17.74 M) | ||
Document Type: Original Article | ||
DOI: 10.21608/esju.1985.316595 | ||
Author | ||
Ahmed Seifelnasr | ||
Institute of Statistical Studies & Research, Cairo University, Egypt | ||
Abstract | ||
Methods derived from information theory are used for the analysis of social mobility matrices. They permit us to give quantitative answers to such questions as: How does destination depend on origin in the occupational mobility table? This was possible through reformulating this and other questions in terms of the predictability-uncertainty dimension. The methods do not require any assumption regarding the relation between different occupational categories. At the same time they provide a finer analysis of mobility tables revealing aspects of mobility which would be masked by more gross methods. | ||
Keywords | ||
Analysis Methods; Information Theory; Occupational Mobility; Predictability-Uncertainty; Social Mobility Matrices | ||
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