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A sample of urban and rural Filipino respondents was asked to rank a list thirty occupations. A high level of agreement in the ranking was noted regardless of the indexes used to differentiate the respondents. Evaluation of occupations in this underdeveloped country was found to be similar to that of industrialized nations. Attention was also given to the frames of reference used in ranking occupations.
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Edward A. Tiryakian (1958) studied this question.
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