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Social class differences in mortality in Great Britain around 1981

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

S. Haberman  and
D. S. F. Bloomfield
S. Haberman
Affiliation:
City University, London
D. S. F. Bloomfield
Affiliation:
City University, London
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The Decennial Supplement on Occupational Mortality published in 1978 commented on mortality differences between the social classes (Chapter 8) using data from the 1971 Census and the deaths in the period 1970–72. The analysis was based on life tables prepared for the individual social classes from which derived indices, for example expectations of life, were calculated. It is proposed here to repeat this exercise using the data for males recently published in microfiche form by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys—OPCS. This time, the Decennial Supplement has omitted to provide an analysis and commentary and we propose to make some attempt to remedy this deficiency. In our analysis, the Decennial Supplement data have been supplemented by data from the OPCS Longitudinal Study.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 115 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 495 - 517
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1988

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