TABLE 3: Percentages of African American and White Workers Downwardly Mobile From Managerial, Administrative, Professional, or Technical Occupations During the 1990s (N = 1,130) (percentages in parentheses) Stayed in a managerial, administrative, professional, or technical occupation Downwardly mobile to a clerical, service, or sales occupation Downwardly mobile to a transport equipment operative, laborer, farm, or craftsman occupation (n = 339) 189 (55.75%) 72 (21.24%) 78 (23.01%) (n = 791) 577 (72.95%) 119 (15.04%) 95 (12.01%) African Americans Whites Total ( N = 1,130) 766 (67.79%) 191 (16.90%) 173 (15.31%) NOTE: Sample 2 = 41.46; p < .001 (two-tailed)