"A Scale for Rating Living Room Equipment" has been used for four years to measure the socio-economic status of 617 homes. The preliminary report of findings indicates that the Scale is adequate to distinguish between broad classes of homes, and suggests the possibility of distinguishing more than two classes of homes. The high reliability and validity of the Scale are shown by ratings on the same home by different observes, correlations with scores on other scales, and by correlations with intelligence and other factors. The author is now engaged in standardizing the Scale on the basis of several hundred homes.
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F. Stuart Chapin (1932) studied this question.