A Relational Occupational Scale for Russia

In this paper I construct a relational occupational scale for post-Soviet Russia using data from the ISSP for 1992-2006 and Goodman's RC type II model. The resulting scale is similar to the scales previously constructed for Western countries. Non-manual occupations rank higher than manual, and professionals rank higher than managers. The scale for Russia is well correlated with education, subjective social class and self-placement on the scale of perceived social hierarchy, as well as with international occupational scales, in particular the ISEI. 1. Occupational inequality in the USSR and Russia