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Ethnicity, russification and excess mortality in Kazakhstan

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  • Ethan J. Sharygin
  • Michel Guillot

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Russians experience higher adult mortality than Central Asians despite higher socioeconomic status. This study exploits Kazakhstan’s demographic and geographic diversity to study ethnic differences in cause-specific mortality. In multivariate regression, all-cause mortality rates for Russian men is 27% higher than for Kazakh men, and alcohol-related death rates among Russian men are 2.5 times higher (15% and 4.1 times higher for women, respectively). Significant mortality differentials exist by ethnicity for external causes and alcohol-related causes of death. Adult mortality among Kazakhs is higher than previously found among Kyrgyz and lower than among Russians. The results suggest that ethnic mortality differentials in Central Asia may be related to the degree of russification, which could be replicating documented patterns of alcohol consumption in non-Russian populations.

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  • Ethan J. Sharygin & Michel Guillot, 2013. "Ethnicity, russification and excess mortality in Kazakhstan," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 11(1), pages 219-246.
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