Description: The degree and type of caste differentiation. See also "Caste differentiation: secondary," as some societies exhibit important features of two different types of caste differentation.
| Code # | Code |
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| 1 | Caste distinctions absent or insignificant |
| 2 | One or more despised occupational groups, e.g., smiths or leather workers, distinguished from the general population, regarded as outcastes by the latter, and characterized by strict endogamy |
| 3 | Ethnic stratification, in which a superordinate caste withholds privileges from and refuses to intermarry with a subordinate caste (or castes) which it stigmatizes as ethnically alien, e.g., as descended from a conquered and culturally inferior indigenous population, from former slaves, or from foreign immigrants of different race and/or culture |
| 4 | Complex caste stratification in which occupational differentiation emphasizes hereditary ascription and endogamy to the near exclusion of achievable class statuses |
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1 | Absence of distinctions | 940 |
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2 | Despised occupation groups | 103 |
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3 | Ethnic stratification | 33 |
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4 | Complex caste stratification | 27 |
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