SOC294H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Capital, Homophily, Capital Formation
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Predictors of social capital: the first set of ascribed variables includes age, gender, birthplace, and ethnicity. Education level" is the highest level of schooling the respondent completed, in tens levels from some elementary school to professional degree or doctorate. Working" is scored 1 if the respondent was self-employed, employed full-time or employed part- time, and 0 of the respondent was not in any kind of paid work. Household income" is income for all household members, from all sources of income, for 1999. This variable has ten levels, the lowest being less than ,000 per year, the highest more than. ,000 per year, with the eight intermediate levels in ,000 steps. Basic facts about gender and social capital: the diversity of contacts with anyone is quite similar to earlier measures of social capital, so we can compare this result to earlier results.
