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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