Hi I am looking for a way to calculate a social status index starting from the job of a person. I know the Hollingshead index, but it is diffcult to adapt it to modern jobs, and I was wondering if an updated version does exist
There are numerous works on index calculation and maybe to search some not related to jobs classified may give you hints with experience of doing index calculation before.
This is a really useful link - with helpful guidance about mapping 'effective social group' to broad job descriptions with downloadable excel files included: https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/otherclassifications/thenationalstatisticssocioeconomicclassificationnssecrebasedonsoc2010