Correlation of OWN OCCUPATION and HEAD'S OCCUPATION

Decomposed Separately for Blacks and for Whites

(Calculated from Duncan, "Inheritance of poverty or inheritance of race?") 
                                       WHITES         BLACKS
CORRELATION                           .37            .12
 
COMPONENTS OF CORRELATION:
Direct:
    HOc -> Oc                         .130           0
Indirect:
    HOc -> Ed -> Oc                   .143           .023
    HOc -> Sibs -> Oc                 .005           0
    HOc -> Sibs -> Ed -> Oc           .014           .006
Shared Antecedents:
    HOc <-> HEd -> Oc                 .010           .032
    HOc <-> HEd -> Ed -> Oc           .054           .049    
    HOc <-> HEd -> Sibs -> Oc         .004           0
    HOc <-> HEd -> Sibs -> Ed -> Oc   .012           0

Sum of calculated components          .372           .110
The correlation between any other pair of variables may be decomposed similarly, using appropriate information from the correlation matrix, the path diagram for whites, and the path diagram for blacks.