Abstract
Recently released public use microdata sample files (PUMS) from the 1940 United States census represent important additions to census time-series data. However, the usefulness of this data set for stratification analyses is limited by missing data on self-employment earnings and the absence of an interval scale for the 1940 classification of occupations. In this paper, we report the methodology used to derive these measures and the results. 1940 census-based occupational SEI scores are estimated, following O. D. Duncan (1961), and an additional method of ranking occupations, mean occupational earnings (MOE), is also described. These two measures of occupational rank should add to the sociological literature on scaling occupations and model testing, and are currently being analyzed in an ongoing research project on patterns of ethnic and immigrant group stratification during the 1940–1950 decade.
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