The results so far have been surprising. Figure 1 below demonstrates equality of opportunity in the 32 countries surveyed, comparing the odds of someone born into the high managerial and vietnam rcs data professional class later attaining that status with those of a person at the opposite end of the social and economic spectrum (the lower the figure the more equality of opportunity).
Figure 1: Odds ratios indicating mobility between the high managerial and professional class and the working class in Europe, men aged 25-64
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When it comes to data, we use a pooled version of the European Social Survey (ESS) from 2002 to 2010, which allows to construct comparable measures of class of origin and destination for a large number of European countries. the European Socio-Economic Classification (ESeC) that is based on a concept of employment relations, and is specifically designed to facilitate comparison across countries.