Table 2.

Mortality in registration sample of 579 homeless people staying in a Copenhagen hostel in 1991

Age	No	No of years under risk	No of deaths	Expected mortality	Observed to expected mortality
Women:
15-24	12	114.1	1	0.03	28.5
25-34	29	242.8	12	0.29	41.7
35-44	16	216.0	1	0.74	1.4
45-54	7	70.3	2	0.56	3.6
55-64	4	40.3	1	0.93	1.1
65-84	2	11.9	1	0.67	1.5
Total	70	—	18	3.21	5.6
Men:
15-24	41	418.0	6	0.45	13.3
25-34	191	1786.3	42	4.43	9.5
35-44	168	1643.1	34	12.00	2.8
45-54	73	714.5	22	10.23	2.5
55-64	26	223.4	12	8.17	1.5
65-84	10	62.8	7	7.99	0.9
Total	509	—	123	43.40	2.8