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DC Al Fine
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« on: November 17, 2012, 04:03:27 PM »

I've been looking at UK election polls. One of the ways the break down the sample is by social class. (A, B, C1, C2 etc.) What do these letters correspond to? I get that A=high class and E=underclass, but what do the others mean?
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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2012, 04:39:36 PM »

It's all based on Job Status.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRS_social_grade
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2012, 06:29:17 PM »

They refer to almost comically outdated assumptions about the links between occupation and class and are only taken seriously by the terminally stupid (so, pollsters, journalists, career politicians, talking heads and members of think tanks).
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