The ANU3_2 scale: a revised occupational status scale for Australia

Australian researchers have used ANU status scales for over two decades to assign socioeconomic status scores to occupations coded into the occupation al classifications produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). W hen the ABS has released new occupational classifications in the past. the ANU scale has been updated accordingly. The most recent status scale, the A NU3 scale, was developed in 1989 for use with the First Edition of the Aust ralian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO). In 1996, however, the ABS released the Second Edition of ASCO. In this paper, we report an adapt ation of the ANU3 scale for use with this modified classification.