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Involving social and economic conditions together.
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- socioeconomic status
- socioeconomic factor
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Socioeconomic status was measured through stated indicators rather than appearance.
A socioeconomic factor explained part of the variation without determining every individual outcome.
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Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Relational adjective; normally no comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: social explanation, distributional analysis, population description, concept distinction. Disciplines: social science, economics, public policy. Commonness: moderately common.
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