Table 2. European Socio-economic Classification.

ESeC Class		Common Term	Employment regulation	3- class schema
1	Large employers, higher grade professional, administrative and managerial occupations	Large employers and higher salariat	Owners and service relationship	Large employers and salariat
2	Lower grade professional, administrative and managerial occupations and higher grade technician and supervisory occupations	Lower salariat	Service relationship
3	Intermediate occupations	Higher grade white collar workers	Mixed
4	Small employer and self employed occupations (excluding agriculture etc)	Petit bourgeoisie or independents	Owners	Intermediate
5	Self employed occupations (agriculture etc)	Petit bourgeoisie or independents	Owners
6	Lower supervisory and lower technician occupations	Higher grade blue collar workers	Mixed
7	Lower services, sales and clerical occupations	Lower grade white collar workers	Labour contract	Routine and manual
8	Lower technical occupations	Skilled workers	Labour contract
9	Routine occupations	Semi- and non-skilled workers	Labour contract