http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...United_Kingdom
"21st century
Main article: National Statistics Socio-economic Classification
The UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) produced a new socio-economic classification in 2001.[8] The reason was to provide a more comprehensive and detailed classification to take newer employment patterns into account.
Group Description NRS equivalent
1 Higher Professional and Managerial workers A
2 Lower Managerial and Professional workers B
3 Intermediate occupations C1 and C2
4 Small Employers and non professional self-employed C1 and C2
5 Lower Supervisory and technical C1 and C2
6 Semi Routine Occupations D
7 Routine Occupations D
8 Long term unemployed E"
I just took this from the internet and reflects a typical, simplistic breakdown for the UK. When I visited the Philippines I wondered how it might be possible to marry up what I saw there in the Philippines, with the UK using a similar methodolgy.......
I explained to my wife, when she first came here that for the most part there aren't any poor people here in the UK, not like there are in the Philippines.
