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	Duncan Socioeconomic Index	Social Mobility Table
Domaine	Sociology	Sociology
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1961	1927 (concept); 1970s–1980s (modern analysis)
Auteur d'origine	Otis Dudley Duncan	Pitirim Sorokin; refined by Hauser, Hout, Featherman
Type	Composite occupational status score from education and income	Cross-classification of social origins by destinations
Source fondatrice	Duncan, O. D. (1961). A socioeconomic index for all occupations. In A. J. Reiss Jr. (Ed.), Occupations and Social Status (pp. 109–138). Free Press of Glencoe.	Hauser, R. M. (1978). A structural model of the mobility table. Social Forces, 56(3), 919–953.
Alias	Duncan SEI, socioeconomic index for occupations, SEI score, Duncan's index	mobility table, intergenerational mobility table, origin-destination table, transition table analysis
Apparentées	5	5
Résumé	The Duncan Socioeconomic Index (SEI), created by Otis Dudley Duncan in 1961, assigns each occupation a socioeconomic status score derived from the education and income of its incumbents. Duncan calibrated the score by regressing the prestige ratings of a limited set of occupations on the percentage of incumbents with high education and high income, then used that equation to predict a status score for every occupation in the census. The SEI thus extends a small number of prestige ratings to the entire occupational structure on a 0–100 scale.	A social mobility table is a cross-classification of individuals by their social origin (typically a parent's class or occupation) and their own destination class, forming the empirical foundation of intergenerational mobility research. Analyzing it separates how much people move between classes, distinguishes movement forced by changing class sizes from genuine exchange, and isolates the underlying origin–destination association that measures the openness of a society.