Abstract
This paper seeks to explore the role that occupational mobility has played within New Zealand society. The paper begins by reviewing the approaches found within mobility research and how these have been taken up within New Zealand research. It notes the limited nature of present knowledge and research into patterns of mobility through time. The article then moves to discussing a method for the longi tudinal study of occupational mobility rates through marriage records. Data is presented based upon two Wellington and two Christchurch localities. From the analysis a number of tentative conclusions are drawn regarding both the overall rate of mobility over time and the distance travelled by the more mobile individuals. The analysis shows that there has always been a fairly high level of self-recruitment to occupational positions and a limited amount of long run mobility.
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