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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2012 May;49(2):575–606. doi: 10.1007/s13524-012-0096-x

Table 3.

Distribution of mortality risk estimates (n=1,381) in the analysis by selected variables

Variable Distribution
Publication date: 1950–1959 4.5%
1960–1969 11.4
1970–1979 4.4
1980–1989 14.5
1990–1999 35.5
2000–2008 29.7
Level of statistical adjustment
Unadjusted 50.2%
Adjusted for age only 20.6
Adjusted for age and additional covariates 29.3
Gender: Women only 45.2%
Men only 48.3
Both genders 6.5
Mean age: < 20 0.3%
20 – 29 2.8
30 – 39 9.4
40 – 49 19.7
50 – 59 18.6
60 – 69 17.4
70 – 79 22.6
≥ 80 9.2
Enrollment start year: 1766 – 1939 6.6%
1940 – 1949 7.4
1950 – 1959 8.1
1960 – 1969 26.4
1970 – 1979 19.3
1980 – 1989 23.9
1990 – 2001 8.3
Comparison group: Married only 91.5%
General population 8.5
Population consists of stressed persons only: Yes 2.4%
No 97.6
Region: Scandinavia 18.6%
United States 29.9
UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand 14.1
East Europe 2.7
West Continental Europe 28.6
China and Japan 2.6
Bangladesh and Lebanon 3.5
Follow-up time: < 1.5 years 25%
1 – 5 years 25%
5 – 10 years 25%
> 10 years 25%
Death rate estimated? Yes 23.8%
No 76.2
Standard error estimated? Yes 48.4%
No 51.6