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Though various studies on spatial mobility are available, little is known about occupational mobility in Canada. This study is concerned with the estimation of Canadian occupational mobility from aggregate census data. The process of occupational mobility is characterized as a stationary Markov chain and certain meaningful conditions are imposed on the transition probabilities to convert the estimation strategy into a linear programming problem. Cross-section data for 1951 and 1961 are employed for estimation purposes. The study reveals that in 1951–61, the Canadian females had higher rates of mobility than the males.
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Paper presented at the joint statistical meetings of the American Statistical Association and the Biometric Society, St. Louis, Missouri, August 26–29, 1974. The authors are grateful to the American Statistical Association for permission to publish this article which appears in the 1974 Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section.
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Krishnan, P., Sangadasa, A. Stochastic indicators of occupational mobility, Canada: 1951–1961. Social Indicators Research 1, 485–493 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00353065
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