Socio Economic Classification

Socio Economic Classification

Occupation	Education
	Illiterate	Less than 4 yrs in school	5-9 yrs of school	School certificate	Some college	Graduate	Post-graduate
Skilled	E2	E1	D	C	C	B2	B2
Unskilled	E2	E2	E1	D	D	D	D
Shop owner	D	D	C	B2	B2	A2	A2
Petty trader	E2	D	D	C	C	B2	B2
Employer of-
Above 10 persons	B1	B1	A2	A2	A1	A1	A1
Below 10 persons	C	B2	B2	B1	A2	A1	A1
None	D	C	B2	B1	A2	A1	A1
Clerk	D	D	D	C	B2	B1	B1
Supervisor	D	D	C	C	B2	B1	A2
Professional	D	D	D	B2	B1	A2	A1
Senior executive	B1	B1	B1	B1	A2	A1	A1
Junior executive	C	C	C	B2	B1	A2	A2

Section A & B refer to high class -- constitutes to over a quarter of urban population.

Section C refers to middle class -- constitutes 21% of the urban class

Section D & E refers to Low Class -- constitutes over half the urban population.

Section C constitutes households whose chief wage earners are employed as :- 

Skilled workers	33%
Petty traders	12%
Clerk/Supervisor	37%
Shop owners	18%

3/4th of them have studied till 10th or 12th exam, while remaining 1/4th have studied  till 9th class. Less than half of the Chief Wage Earners belongings to section D & E are unskilled workers.

Petty traders are 18% while skilled workers are 28%.

More than 80% of the upper strata consumers are living in the top 7 cities. These top cities are Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Hyderabad. With increase in economic prosperity, this population (upper strata consumers) is growing at 10% annually.

The rural area is segregated in to R1, R2, R3, R4.

Education of chief wage earner	Type of House
	Pucca	Semi-pucca	Kuchcha
Professional degree	R1	R2	R3
Graduation/ PG	R1	R2	R3
College	R1	R2	R3
SSC/HSC	R2	R3	R3
Class 4-Class 9	R3	R3	R4
Up to class 4	R3	R3	R4
Self-learning	R3	R4	R4
Illiterate	R4	R4	R4