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Mortality among the elderly in Sweden by social class

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  • Olausson, Petra Otterblad

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Total mortality has been analysed for elderly Swedish men and women by social class. Information on social and demographic factors was obtained from the 1960 Population Census. The mortality was followed up from 1961 to 1979. The study indicates that there are evident social class differences in mortality among people aged 65-83 years. We found increasing class differences with increased age among women, but decreasing class differences with increased age among men. Also, the class gradients before retirement age were steeper than after that age. The opposite was true for women, where the class gradient was more evident among older women than among younger ones. The class gradients were less marked for married than for other marital status groups and the class gradients were steepest in areas with a high degree of urbanization.

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  • Olausson, Petra Otterblad, 1991. "Mortality among the elderly in Sweden by social class," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 437-440, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:32:y:1991:i:4:p:437-440
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    1. Virginia Zarulli & Domantas Jasilionis & Dmitri A. Jdanov, 2012. "Changes in educational differentials in old-age mortality in Finland and Sweden between 1971-1975 and 1996-2000," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 26(19), pages 489-510.
    2. Rasmus Hoffmann, 2005. "Does the socioeconomic mortality gradient interact with age? Evidence from US survey data and Danish register data," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2005-020, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    3. Tommy Bengtsson & Martin Dribe & Jonas Helgertz, 2020. "When Did the Health Gradient Emerge? Social Class and Adult Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1813–2015," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 57(3), pages 953-977, June.
    4. Virginia Zarulli, 2016. "Unobserved Heterogeneity of Frailty in the Analysis of Socioeconomic Differences in Health and Mortality," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 32(1), pages 55-72, February.
    5. Zachary Zimmer & Heidi A. Hanson & Ken R. Smith, 2016. "Offspring Socioeconomic Status and Parent Mortality Within a Historical Population," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 53(5), pages 1583-1603, October.

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