Very much NOT inclusive MN census survey question

[Angelofthenortheast]

the Mumsnet census questionnaire has the standard survey question of what job you do, but it orders the job blatantly by what is more 'superior' status wise.

E.g manual worker near the bottom and stuff like Director at the top, but also cleaner being lower down than office work.

I'm so sick of seeing this in surveys, people being made to scroll down to remind themselves that factory worker is less status than office worker.

Survey designers are very capable of jumbling the order of the options so why don't they?

They should probably put them in alphabetical order.

I think it's standard ONS classification

They don't randomise the order because they want you to tick the box for the "highest" one to understand the demographics and lots of people have more than one job. If you don't order them according to the priority you want people to answer in, people will tick the first one they get to.

I clicked on it and honestly I've never seen so many personal questions in one survey. I don't remember even the government census being that intrusive!

I didn't get that far.

I gave up when one of the first questions was (possibly not exactly) 'how many children (of any age) are in your household/family '. That's two different questions with two different answers. I'm pretty sure I know what they are attempting to ask, but they've worded it in a way that means I can't give just one answer, and to give the answer I think they are looking for means I effectively am saying that one of my children is not family. Nope, I refuse to do that.

you might not like the order but it isn't "not inclusive".

I imagine the position in the list loosely equates to the average wage for the role, which of course is linked to status in the way the role is perceived.

I hate scrolling down to find my year of birth🙄

Heaven knows where people who are long term sick/disabled and don't work,rank!

At the bottom, apparently!

I never know what my job is on those questionnaires.
Definitely not manual labour.
Definitely not a manager.
Definitely employed.

It’s not ordered by perception of status, it’s ordered by level of responsibility of job, and aligned with ONS categories