| Respondent type of subjective social status |
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Manifest variables | Upper | Upper middle | Middle | Lower middle | Lower |
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Education | | | | | |
Primary school and below | 0.034 | 0.200 | 0.00 | 0.379 | 0.755 |
Junior high school | 0.024 | 0.439 | 0.411 | 0.510 | 0.230 |
Senior high school | 0.135 | 0.328 | 0.517 | 0.106 | 0.031 |
Tertiary | 0.806 | 0.033 | 0.072 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Income | | | | | |
1st level | 0.007 | 0.065 | 0.034 | 0.100 | 0.500 |
2nd level | 0.018 | 0.054 | 0.067 | 0.235 | 0.222 |
3rd level | 0.057 | 0.117 | 0.156 | 0.293 | 0.132 |
4th level | 0.153 | 0.262 | 0.267 | 0.225 | 0.078 |
5th level | 0.250 | 0.269 | 0.233 | 0.102 | 0.040 |
6th level | 0.515 | 0.233 | 0.243 | 0.044 | 0.028 |
ISEI | | | | | |
1st level | 0.007 | 0.000 | 0.052 | 0.435 | 0.888 |
2nd level | 0.016 | 0.350 | 0.065 | 0.228 | 0.047 |
3rd level | 0.083 | 0.309 | 0.241 | 0.171 | 0.027 |
4th level | 0.266 | 0.307 | 0.328 | 0.116 | 0.017 |
5th level | 0.628 | 0.035 | 0.313 | 0.050 | 0.021 |
6th level | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Class size (assigned) | 12.28 % | 6.08 % | 21.15 % | 30.59 % | 29.90 % |
- The conditional probabilities indicate the probability that an individual in a certain latent class will score a particular way on a manifest variable (McCutcheon 1987, p. 33). A respondent belonging to Class 1, for instance, has a chance close to 97 % of turning to personal contact who is “very much” trusted. Then we assign the respondents to the five latent classes to create a new categorical variable representing one’s objective status. According to McCutcheon (1987, p. 36), the assignment of observations to latent classes is probabilistic and therefore involving some error. Although not reported here, in our case, the two measures to estimate the expected proportion of classification errors and the closeness of association between the latent variable and the joint variables shows that no big uncertainty would appear during the process of assignment. As can be seen from the table, C1 has the highest probabilities of reporting the highest level of education, income, and occupations, while C5 has the lowest probabilities of these. We therefore label C1 through C5 upper class (12.28 %), upper middle class (6.08 %), middle class (21.15 %), lower middle class (30.59 %), and lower class (29.90 %), respectively