Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, 2112 Art-Sociology Bldg., College Park, MD 20742, USA.
J Adolesc. 2011 Feb;34(1):95-103. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.01.008. Epub 2010 Feb 13.
Socioeconomic status (SES) is considered to be an important marker of physical, mental, and social outcomes. However, methods used to gather socioeconomic information vary widely in terms of both the indicators of SES used (e.g., education, occupation, income, etc.) and data collection strategies. In particular, studies of adolescents often rely on children's proxy reports of measures of parents' SES. There is disagreement in the literature regarding children's ability to reliably serve as proxy respondents for their parents. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a nationally representative sample of adolescents and their parents, we assess the accuracy of children's proxy reports of mothers' education and receipt of public assistance. Results show that accuracy of children's proxy reports varies by children's age, gender, and race; however, social class largely accounts for race differences found.
社会经济地位（SES）被认为是身体、心理和社会结果的重要标志。然而，用于收集社会经济信息的方法在 SES 指标的使用（如教育、职业、收入等）和数据收集策略方面差异很大。特别是，青少年的研究通常依赖于儿童对父母 SES 衡量标准的代理报告。文献中对于儿童是否能够可靠地作为父母的代理受访者存在分歧。利用来自全国青少年健康纵向研究的数据，这是一个具有全国代表性的青少年及其父母样本，我们评估了儿童对母亲教育和接受公共援助的代理报告的准确性。结果表明，儿童代理报告的准确性因儿童的年龄、性别和种族而异；然而，社会阶层在很大程度上解释了发现的种族差异。
