Wednesday, 16 October 2013

The JICNAR Scale

The JICNAR Scale
(Joint Industry Committee for National Readership Surveys)

Media producers use this scale in order to help identify and target a specific demographic. There  are six elements to the scale and they are identified as follows:

Group A (Professionals)
Upper middle class, e.g. Barristers, Doctors, Executives

Group B (Managerial)
Middle class, e.g. Bank Managers, Teachers

Group C1 (Non-Manual)
Lower middle class, white collar workers, e.g. Office Workers

Group C2 (Manual)
Skilled working class, Blue collar workers, e.g. Car Mechanic, Machine operators, Construction workers

Group D (Partly Skilled)
Semi or unskilled manual workers, e.g. Assembly line worker

Group E (Unskilled)
Casual workers, dependent on state benefits, students 

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