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. 2023;24(12):4339–4348. doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2023.24.12.4339

Table 2.

Comparison of the 3 Mortality Rate Groups with Socio-Economic-Racial Data

Sociodemographic and economic data Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Avarege Rate of Lower Mortality Average Rate of
Intermediate Mortality
Average Rate of
Major Mortality
Average income rate by State (in reais R$) 1,809.06 1,777.61 2,594.86
Average percentage of households receiving “Bolsa Família” (%) 25.4 22.7 7.9
Average percentage of people with income (%) 53.7 60.5 63.5
Average vacancy rate 8.54 8.13 6.71
Average rate of the GINI* index of per capita household income 0.63 0.6 0.58
Average percentage of households that received LOAS (%) 5.1 4.71 2.83
Average percentage of women > 50 years old (%) 19.71 25.95 29.3
Average illiteracy rate (women > 60 years old) 13.58 15.32 6.59
Average years of schooling (women > 60 years old) 4.81 5,01 6.64
Average percentage of white population (%) 21.99 30.62 55.01
Average mammogram rate 1,501.83 2,515.03 2,873.20

Footnote: own elaboration based on SIH-SUS data. LOAS (Organic Social Assistance Law- Brasil, 1993) is a right guaranteed to all low-income elderly people over 65 years of age. As well as people with disabilities of physical, intellectual or sensorial origin, also of low income and of any age. http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/l8742.htm *Gini index is an economic measure used to calculate the income inequality that exists among citizens of a territory, usually a country.