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| Social inequalities in adult female mortality by the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification, England and Wales, 2001-2003 | | Author(s) | Ann Langford, Brian Johnson |
| Journal title | Health Statistics Quarterly, no 42, Summer 2009 |
| Pages | pp 6-21 |
| Source | http://www.statistics.gov.uk |
| Keywords | Older women ; Death rate [statistics] ; Poverty ; Socio-economic groups ; Indicators ; Longitudinal surveys ; England ; Wales. |
| Annotation | This analysis of mortality in women aged 25-59 in 2001-03 found that those in the least advantaged social economic class had a mortality rate around twice that of women in the most advantaged class. This article uses the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC), and examines the relative merits of classification based on a woman's 'own' occupation as opposed to a 'combined' classification which also takes into account the husband's NS-SEC class, where available. The results demonstrate a strong socio-economic gradient in mortality for adult women under both classification methods. Under the 'combined' classification, women in the least advantaged NS-SEC class had a mortality rate 2.6 times that of those in the most advantaged class. Based on the women's 'own' occupation, the comparable ratio was 1.9. These results set a benchmark for the future monitoring of socio-economic mortality inequalities in women, and also provide a comparison between inequalities affecting women and men. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090622201 A |
| Classmark | BD: S5: W6: T4: 3RI: 3J: 82: 9 |
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