The AUSEI06

Abstract

This article provides an overview of the development of a new occupational status scale, the Australian Socioeconomic Index 2006 (AUSEI06). This is the latest in the series of ANU scales, which since 1965 have provided a means for researchers to convert data coded in accordance with official occupational classifications into occupational status scores. The ANU scales have been widely used in fields such as sociology, education, economics and health. The new scale has been developed in response to the introduction of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Recent changes in the structure of the labour market are taken into account through the use of 2006 Australian Census data for scale development. In addition, the naming convention of the scale has been revised in order to better reflect its nature: the Australian (AU) Socioeconomic Index (SEI) 2006 (06) or AUSEI06.

Equity in higher education and graduate labour market outcomes in Australia

“…Several other probit models were estimated using different measures of 'job quality' in addition to those reported in this paper. These included (1) obtaining a full-time job, (2) obtaining a professional or semi-professional occupation, (3) the field of study matched the requirements of the job, (4) the skills of the graduate matched the requirements of the job and (5) occupational status as measured by the AUSE106 index (McMillan, Beavis, & Jones, 2009). In the interests of conciseness, the results from these models are not reported, although it can be noted that the conclusions to be drawn as to the performance of equity groups in the labour market are similar to those reported below.…”

Young People's Aspirations and Their Occupational Outcomes

“…The outcome measure, students' occupational aspirations, was constructed from a survey item that asks about the kind of job that respondents expect to have at age 30 (descriptive statistics for the outcome measure are provided in Table ). Answers were transformed to the Australian Socioeconomic Index 2006 scale (AUSEI06; McMillan, Jones and Beavis ), which is a continuous measure of occupational status, ranging from 0 (low status) to 100 (high status). Examples of AUSEI06 scores, along with their respective occupations, are provided in Table .…”

“…The ANU4 scale is an older version of the AUSEI06 scale and recodes occupations into a continuous scale reflecting occupational status. The correlation between ANU4 and AUSEI06 is very high ( r = 0.98), so both scales can be treated as essentially identical (see McMillan, Jones and Beavis ).…”

Examining the impact of genetic variation on the structure and function of the brain

“…Full-scale intelligence quotient (FIQ) measured using the Multidimensional Aptitude Battery (Jackson, 1984) as close as possible to participants' 16 th birthday. ‡ Gestational age, birth weight and socioeconomic status (McMillan, Beavis, & Jones, 2009) were obtained from parental reports when participants were 12 or 16 years of age.…”

“…SES was assessed through the AUSEI06 (McMillan et al, 2009). QTIM measures were corrected for the same covariates as HCP measures, additionally controlling for slice acquisition direction (structural MRI measures only) and study source (CORE-PC score only).…”