Table.

Annual age adjusted rate of years of potential life lost per 1000 population for principal causes of death in men aged 20-64 in England and Wales for 1970-2, 1979-80 and 1982-3, and 1991-3 (standardised to population of England and Wales 1981)

Social class	1970-2	1979-80, 1982-3	1991-3
All causes of death:
I	48.7	36.5	28.0
II	51.9	42.2	31.6
III non-manual	65.0	53.9	45.7
III manual	66.0	58.0	50.5
IV	75.6	67.7	52.8
V	103.0	105.8	93.3
Death from ischaemic heart disease*:
I	15.3	11.1	6.1
II	16.3	13.6	7.1
III non-manual	21.2	17.9	10.6
III manual	19.9	18.4	12.5
IV	20.5	19.7	12.8
V	22.8	26.7	20.4
Death from all malignant neoplasms†:
I	12.5	10.0	9.2
II	12.7	10.9	9.3
III non-manual	14.8	13.0	12.2
III manual	17.1	15.1	14.1
IV	17.9	16.2	13.6
V	20.7	21.6	19.3
Death from accidents and violence‡:
I	8.5	7.1	5.5
II	9.1	8.1	6.4
III non-manual	9.4	9.3	9.0
III manual	10.7	11.2	11.9
IV	14.1	14.5	12.3
V	24.5	27.8	26.6

^*ICD-9 codes 410-414. ^†ICD-9 codes 140-208. ^‡ICD-9 codes E800-E999.