Methods derived from information theory are used for the analysis of social mobility matrices. They permit us to give quantitative answers to such questions as: How does destination depend on origin in the occupational mobility table? This was possible through reformulating this and other questions in terms of the predictability-uncertainty dimension. The methods do not require any assumption regarding the relation between different occupational categories. At the same time they provide a finer analysis of mobility tables revealing aspects of mobility which would be masked by more gross methods.
Seifelnasr, A. (1985). The Application of Information Theory to the Analysis of Occupational Mobility in Egypt. The Egyptian Statistical Journal, 29(2), 1-24. doi: 10.21608/esju.1985.316595
MLA
Ahmed Seifelnasr. "The Application of Information Theory to the Analysis of Occupational Mobility in Egypt", The Egyptian Statistical Journal, 29, 2, 1985, 1-24. doi: 10.21608/esju.1985.316595
HARVARD
Seifelnasr, A. (1985). 'The Application of Information Theory to the Analysis of Occupational Mobility in Egypt', The Egyptian Statistical Journal, 29(2), pp. 1-24. doi: 10.21608/esju.1985.316595
VANCOUVER
Seifelnasr, A. The Application of Information Theory to the Analysis of Occupational Mobility in Egypt. The Egyptian Statistical Journal, 1985; 29(2): 1-24. doi: 10.21608/esju.1985.316595
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