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Socio-economic characteristics were identified by self-reported labour market status,
and for those who were working, social class. Although labour market status is used
as an indicator of SES for purposes of describing sample characteristics, non-
occupational dimensions of social class such as tenure, access to cultural resources
and wealth also emerged through the biographical interviews.

Forty-four per cent of our sample were currently employed. The remaining 56% not in
the labour market could be divided into four groups: housewives and househusbands;
students; the retired; and the unemployed. Diagram 1 (p. 88) shows the breakdown of
the non-labour market group. As can be seen in the diagram, those classifying
themselves as students were a large proportion of the non-labour market sample.

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