Comparer des méthodes

	Social Mobility Table	Index of Dissimilarity
Domaine	Sociology	Sociology
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1927 (concept); 1970s–1980s (modern analysis)	1955
Auteur d'origine	Pitirim Sorokin; refined by Hauser, Hout, Featherman	Otis Dudley Duncan & Beverly Duncan
Type	Cross-classification of social origins by destinations	Index of evenness of two groups across units
Source fondatrice	Hauser, R. M. (1978). A structural model of the mobility table. Social Forces, 56(3), 919–953.	Duncan, O. D., & Duncan, B. (1955). A methodological analysis of segregation indexes. American Sociological Review, 20(2), 210–217.
Alias	mobility table, intergenerational mobility table, origin-destination table, transition table analysis	dissimilarity index, Duncan index, D index, segregation index
Apparentées	5	5
Résumé	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.	The index of dissimilarity, often called the Duncan segregation index, measures how unevenly two groups — such as two racial or occupational groups — are distributed across a set of units like neighborhoods, schools, or occupations. It ranges from 0, when both groups have identical distributions across units, to 1, when the units are completely segregated, and has the intuitive interpretation of the share of one group that would have to relocate to achieve an even distribution.