Which social group??

[bekib86]

Which social group would a chef come under out of these...
II Managerial and Technical occupations
III Skilled occupations - non-manual
III Skilled occupations - manual
IV Partly skilled occupations
V Unskilled occupations

Thanks

[Buenchico]

The system of classifying social groups, which you quote, is no longer used by government statisticians. They now use a 9 point scale, as follows:

1 Managers and senior officials
2 Professional occupations
3 Associate professional and technical occupations
4 Administrative and secretarial occupations
5 Skilled trades occupations
6 Personal service occupations
7 Sales and customer service occupations
8 Process, plant and machine operatives
9 Elementary occupations

Under this system, a chef is coded '5434' where the first digit indicates which of the above groups applies. So, a chef is defined as being in a 'skilled trades occupation'. Under the older scheme, that would seem to suggest either group III(a) or III(b). Since the occupation is largely a manual one, that would seem to indicate that group III(b) is the appropriate one.

Note that I've used (a) and (b) to indicate the subdivisions of group III. Statisticians normally refer to groups III(wc) and III(man), representing 'white collar' and 'manual' respectively.

Chris

[kettledrum]

If the chef only acts as a chef - ie glorified cooking, he would be classified as III skilled occupations - manual - also known as C2 (probably an even older classification Buenchico). But if he has any management responsibilities - is in charge of even one sous-chef, commis-chef or other staff, orders provisions etc. he would then be III skilled - non-manual or C1.