Article history: Received 2 April 2013 Available online 21 June 2013 This research examined the effects of vocational interest levels and differentiation on annual income. Following the environmental perspective, we investigatedwhether relationships existed at the occupation level of analysis. Using data from 665 occupations in the U.S. obtained fromU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*Net, we...

Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the caries experience and its relationship with parent’s education, occupation and socio economic status of the family among 3-6 years old preschool children of Sri Ganganagar city, India. Material and methods: A sample of 512 preschool going children were selected. The socioeconomic status was elicited using modified B.G.L. Prasad’s classificatio...

Links between low socioeconomic position and poor health are well established. Most previous research, however, has focused on middle-aged males and has relied on limited socioeconomic data, usually measured at one point over the life course. This paper examines all-cause, cardiovascular, and noncardiovascular mortality in women in relation to socioeconomic position at different stages of the l...

BACKGROUND Public health research is shifting focus to the role of socioeconomic indicators in the promotion of health. As such an understanding of the roles that socio-economic factors play in improving health and health-seeking behaviour is important for public health policy. This is because the share of resources devoted to different policy options should depend on their relative effectivene...

The literature on employee spinoffs has, for a long time, stressed the importance of industry-specific skills and experiences in explaining the success of new firms. We argue that employees also develop skills that are associated with their occupation within an industry, and that success as an entrepreneur, therefore, is also contingent on the relation between the entrepreneurs' previous occupa...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of occupation and education level of Chinese female breast cancer patients on their cancer staging at diagnosis, clinical and pathological features, rate of implementation, and selection of treatment.The medical charts of 4211 confirmed female breast cancer cases diagnosed between 1999 and 2008, from 7 breast cancer centers spread across th...

This study examined individual and household socioeconomic status (SES) in relation to phenotypes of neural tube defects, orafacial clefts, and conotruncal heart defects using data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study with 2,551 nonmalformed liveborn controls and 1,841 cases delivered in 1997–2000. The individual SES was measured by maternal and paternal education, occupation, and h...

OBJECTIVES This study examines the associations of socioeconomic status (SES) with intensity of different types of physical activity (PA) in Chinese adults, aimed at outlining and projecting socioeconomic disparities in PA among the population undergoing a rapid nutrition transition. METHODS A community-based survey was conducted among 3,567 residents aged 30-65 years old in Jiaxing, China, i...

This exploratory research examined the contributing influence of a range of contextual and individual variables on the prediction of education, occupation and income aspirations for Maori. Such variables included parental support, parental aspirations, personality, socioeconomic status, age, and Treaty of Waitangi claims settlements. Of particular interest was determining whether Treaty of Wait...