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Most common age at death, by socio-economic position in England and Wales
— a 30 years comparison | | Corporate Author | Office for National Statistics - ONS |
| Publisher | Office for National Statistics, 21 February 2017 |
| Pages | 9 pp |
| Source | https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/survivalbysocioeconomicpos... |
| Keywords | Life span ; Death rate [statistics] ; Life expectancy tables ; Socio-economic groups ; Longitudinal surveys ; England ; Wales. |
| Annotation | This article use the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) to report variations in age at death between 1982 to 1986 and 2007 to 2011 by sex and socio-economic position in England and Wales. It provides alternative measures of mortality for socio-economic classes, by examining trends in survival, the ages at which deaths peak, and the age at which half the cohort have died. It finds that for the period 2007 to 2011, the most common age at death was 85.6 years for men and 88.3 years for women, an increase of 8.2 years and 3.8 years respectively since 1982 to 1986. Since the early to mid 1980s, the change in the most common age at death for men was much larger in routine occupations compared with higher managerial and professional occupations, ranging from 9.2 years (75.2 to 84.4 years) in the former, and 7.4 years (79.4 to 86.8 years) in the latter. The age at which half of the population is expected to be still alive had reached 81.8 years for males and 85.3 years for females; it stood at 74.7 years and 80.7 years respectively in 1982 to 1986. This analysis is an extension of a project which reported trends in life expectancy at birth and at age 65 by socio-economic position in England and Wales between 1982 to 1986 and 2007 to 2011, based on the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC). The article also provides detailed information about, and links to, data sources. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170221001 P |
| Classmark | BG6: S5: S7: T4: 3J: 82: 9 |
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