Socio-economic status

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The socio-economic status (SoS) is a term from the social sciences and describes a bundle of characteristics of human living conditions. These include, for example:

• formal education and graduation
• education and study
• Profession and Income
• Ownership of cultural goods (often recorded through the possession of books)
• cultural practice: visits to theaters and museums
• Place of residence and ownership
• Liquidity and creditworthiness

The socio-economic status (SoS) is the subject of numerous studies by social scientists. One example of this is the German socio-economic panel SOEP .

See also

• International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status
• Social background
• Social status
• Sociodemographic characteristics

Web links

• Overview of scales for recording socio-economic status (PDF file; 9.02 MB)