Table 2.

Hollingshead data for jobs

Hollingshead rank score	Hollingshead occupational description	Occupation, n (%)
		Participant present*	Parental	Participant desired†
1	Higher executive, major professional, etc	0 (0.0)	41 (20.3)	151 (55.5)
2	Business manager, etc	8 (7.9)	24 (11.9)	31 (11.4)
3	Administrative personnel, etc	7 (6.9)	21 (10.4)	33 (12.1)
4	Clerical and sales, technician, etc	34 (33.6)	28 (13.9)	14 (5.1)
5	Skilled manual	8 (7.9)	18 (8.9)	39 (14.3)
6	Machine operators, semiskilled labour, etc	2 (2.0)	8 (4.0)	4 (1.5)
7	Unskilled labour	0 (0.0)	21 (10.4)	0 (0.0)
8	Unemployed, homemaker	42 (41.6)	41 (20.3)	0 (0.0)

^*Participants’ present occupation included part-time work and did not include student status;

^†Desired future occupations included one or more choices for each participant. Data adapted from references 17–19