You are conducting a survey in your village and the person you are interviewing is a 32 year old post graduate working as a clerk. His total family income is 20,000 Rs per month. According to Kuppuswamy's socio economic status scale, he belongs to:
Upper socioeconomic class
Upper socioeconomic class
Lower middle socioeconomic class
Upper lower socioeconomic class
Kuppuswamy's socio economic status scale takes into account education, occupation and monthly family income. Since he is a post graduate he gets 6 points for education. His job as a clerk gives him 5 points and a monthly family income of 20000 Rs gives him 12 points which gives him a total of 23 points and so he belongs to upper middle socioeconomic class. Socio economic status Total score Upper socio economic status 26 - 29 Upper middle socioeconomic status 16 - 25 Lower middle socioeconomic status 11 - 15 Upper lower socioeconomic status 5 - 10 Lower socioeconomic status <5 Ref: Park, Edition 21, Page 639