I. | II. | III. | IV. | V. | Tot. | |
I. | [341] | 396 | 303 | 317 | 158 | 1515 |
II. | 410 | [600] | 568 | 625 | 306 | 2509 |
III. | 317 | 458 | [882] | 972 | 435 | 3064 |
IV. | 323 | 548 | 1004 | [1777] | 595 | 4247 |
V. | 202 | 307 | 523 | 860 | [1857] | 3749 |
Tot. | 1593 | 2309 | 3280 | 4551 | 3351 | 15084 |
Couples cross-classified by husband's father's occupational category (row) and wife's father's occupational category (column). Cell entries are numbers of marriages (in thousands) with wives ages 22-41, estimated for the entire U. S., based on 1962 OCG sample data.
Occupational categories: I. Professional and managerial. II. White-collar. III. Upper blue-collar. IV. Lower blue-collar. V. Farm.
Source: Page 753 of: Zick Rubin. 1968. "Do American Women Marry Up?" American Sociological Review 33 (No. 5, October): 750-760. [The entire article is available on http://www.jstor.org.]