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What is "socioeconomic"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
socioeconomic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
socioeconomic statusformal (= relating to your social rank and money)
▪ migrant farm workers and others of low socioeconomic status
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
class
▪ The authors thus concluded that the excess mortality noted for gastric cancer was probably related to socioeconomic class rather than coal mining.
▪ Today such skills are directly correlated with socioeconomic class.
▪ The criteria for inclusion were: * age; * marital status; * socioeconomic class.
▪ In addition, fathers of different socioeconomic classes do not report different levels of work-family conflict.
▪ The total population and its distribution into socioeconomic classes, income or occupational categories must be known.
▪ We are young and old, black and white, from every socioeconomic class and political persuasion.
group
▪ First, transracial adopters tend to belong to relatively high socioeconomic groups.
▪ Children in the lower socioeconomic groups, particularly black youngsters, had the highest caries attack rate.
▪ Thus, most clinic patients are members of the lower socioeconomic group.
status
▪ Introduction An inverse relation between socioeconomic status and mortality has been documented in many studies, nomatterhow socioeconomic status has been measured.
▪ It is obvious that high socioeconomic status does not insulate children from this particular type of academic failure.
▪ Introduction An inverse relation between socioeconomic status and mortality has been documented in many studies, nomatterhow socioeconomic status has been measured.
▪ Clearly, emerging infections can affect people everywhere, regardless of lifestyle, cultural or ethnic background, or socioeconomic status.
▪ However, between grade categories there were striking differentials in income and other measures of socioeconomic status.
▪ Also, a low socioeconomic status and a suppressed immune system may put women at significantly higher risk.
▪ Grade of employment was used as a measure of socioeconomic status.
▪ Measures of height or length generally correlate better with socioeconomic status than do measures of weight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Basically their socioeconomic structure thus remains as it was under direct imperialist rule.
▪ Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have appealed to the electorate at large, regardless of any socioeconomic considerations.
▪ First, transracial adopters tend to belong to relatively high socioeconomic groups.
▪ Introduction An inverse relation between socioeconomic status and mortality has been documented in many studies, nomatterhow socioeconomic status has been measured.
▪ It is obvious that high socioeconomic status does not insulate children from this particular type of academic failure.
▪ Researcher Gordon Wells monitored closely the talk 20 children from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds engaged in at home and school.
▪ The limited data available suggest there are also substantial socioeconomic differences in morbidity, but these differences remain largely unexplained.
▪ Today such skills are directly correlated with socioeconomic class.
Wiktionary
socioeconomic

a. Of or pertaining to social and economic factors. alt. Of or pertaining to social and economic factors.

WordNet
socioeconomic

adj. involving social as well as economic factors; "socioeconomic status"

Usage examples of "socioeconomic".

But despite all that, the combination of economic growth, government investment in broad-based programs to encourage upward mobility, and a modest commitment to enforce the simple principle of nondiscrimination was sufficient to pull the large majority of blacks and Latinos into the socioeconomic mainstream within a generation.

And a political scientist, Harlan Halm, doing a study of various city referenda on Vietnam, found support for withdrawal from Vietnam highest in groups of lower socioeconomic status.

He devotes some attention to the inevitable antitechnological reactions these developments will occasion, but socioeconomic factors will likely have a much greater impact on the deployment of intelligent machines and virtual reality in the next century.

Santucci gravely, "we must include socioeconomic backgrounding integral with the foregrounded material.

Then in the 2170s the Martian historian Charlotte Dorsa Brevia wrote and published a dense multivolumed analytical metahistory, as she called it, which maintained that the great flood had indeed served as a trigger point, and technical advances as the enabling mechanism, but that the specific character of the new renaissance had been caused by something much more fundamental, which was the shift from one kind of global socioeconomic system to the next.

Was there anything about India's environment predisposing toward rigid socioeconomic castes, with grave consequences for the development of technology in India?

Was there anything about India’s environment predisposing toward rigid socioeconomic castes, with grave consequences for the development of technology in India?