Widening Educational Differentials in Mortality: Analysis for Austria with International Comparisons

Franz Schwarz
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jungho Kim, Arnstein Aassve and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

No 506, VID Working Papers from Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna

Abstract: Recent studies have reported a widening in the relative mortality gap between the socioeconomic classes in several industrialized western countries. The present paper aims to determine whether or not education-related differentials in mortality have increased between 1981/82 and 1991/92 in Austria, and compares the findings with those from other European countries, the USA and New Zealand. For the Austrian analysis the source of the data is based on a one year mortality follow up of the entire Austrian census population, and contains for the examined population aged 30-74 in total 3,805,208 individual records for 1981/82 and 4,064,184 records for 1991/92 of which 34,218 and 29,443 were deceased.The study applies a sophisticated measure of inequality that takes into account the relative position of the educational groups, since changing educational compositions over time may reduce comparability. The findings suggest that educational inequalities in mortality have widened in Austria, but more among men than among women. The Austrian results are similar to patterns observed in the other countries. However, the international trends vary with regard to age groups and sex.

Keywords: Mortality; Socioeconomic; Differentials; Inequalities; Education; Relative Index of Inequality; Austria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2005-06
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