New Occupational Class Used in this Analysis
		Managerial and specialty operations	Professional Specialty	Sales	Clerical/ admin supp	Services	Manual	All
Original Occupational Class with 17 Categories Based on 1980 Census	01. managerial specialty operators	1,079	0	0	0	0	0	1,079
	02. professional specialty operations/technical support	0	1,087	0	0	0	0	1,087
	03. sales	0	0	719	0	0	0	719
	04. clerical/administrative support	0	0	0	1,067	0	0	1,067
	05. service: private household/cleaning/building svc	0	0	0	0	106	0	106
	06. service: protection	0	0	0	0	126	0	126
	07. service: food preparation	0	0	0	0	207	0	207
	08. health services	0	0	0	0	159	0	159
	09. personal services	0	0	0	0	455	0	455
	10. farming/forestry/fishing	0	0	0	0	0	235	235
	11. mechanics/repair	0	0	0	0	0	284	284
	12. Construction trade/extractors	0	0	0	0	0	268	268
	13. precision production	0	0	0	0	0	252	252
	14. operators: machine	0	0	0	0	0	470	470
	15. operators: transport, etc	0	0	0	0	0	396	396
	16. operators: handlers, etc.,	0	0	0	0	0	186	186
	17. member of the armed forces	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	All	1,079	1,087	719	1,067	1,053	2,091	7,096

Note: Due to low sample size, we did not include 6 HRS participants whose occupational class was “Member of Armed forces”