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Mortality variations in England and Wales between types of place
— an analysis of the ONS Longitudinal Study | | Author(s) | Russell Ecob, Kelvyn Jones |
| Journal title | Social Science and Medicine, vol 47, no 12, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 2055-2066 |
| Keywords | Death rate [statistics] ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Social class ; Private cars ; Demography ; Variance analysis ; Longitudinal surveys ; England ; Wales. |
| Annotation | There is longstanding evidence of substantial geographical differences in mortality within the UK. This study investigates the extent to which individuals in different types of place in England and Wales experience differential mortality, once account is taken of personal (individual and household) circumstances. Data used is from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) Longitudinal Study of England and Wales, the respondents being a 1% national random sample of people aged 25 to 74 at the 1971 Census, followed until the end of 1985. For males and females separately, differences in mortality are found for the 36 types of Craig-Webber classification in models which include, at the individual level, a number of demographic and socio-demographic variables. In general, for both sexes, the same types of place have higher or lower mortality. For males, a (cross-level) interaction exists between the proportion in the area in professional social classes and individual social class, the effects of individual social class being larger in areas containing a higher proportion of those in professional occupations. For females, mortality is negatively related to the proportion of car ownership in the area. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990618202 A |
| Classmark | S5: RH: F: T: O3: S8: 3YA: 3J: 82: 9 * |
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