The possibility that recent evidence of international similarity in occupational prestige may be a spurious result of oversampling of students and other "modern" respondents in non-industrialized society studies is discussed and examined with survey data from Hausaland, a traditional, non-industrial society in northern Nigeria. Correlations between NORC prestige evaluations and evaluations of "modern" and "traditional" Nigerian respondents fail to support the alternative methodological explanation and provide additional support for the thesis of international occupational prestige uniformity. The need for comparisons among respondents from communities varying in size and complexity in non-industrial societies is indicated as a further test of the possibility of spuriously high international correlations, and the need for theoretical efforts to account for intersocietal uniformity in occupational prestige structures is emphasized.