Table 3.

Cause-specific contributions (years and%) to life expectancy gap by education among Korean men and women

Cause of death	Men			Women
	I vs. III	I vs. II	II vs. III	I vs. III	I vs. II	II vs. III
All causes	16.226 (100.0)	3.912 (100.0)	12.314 (100.0)	7.692 (100.0)	1.130 (100.0)	6.562 (100.0)
Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)	0.790 (4.87)	0.144 (3.69)	0.655 (5.32)	0.233 (3.03)	0.033 (2.88)	0.198 (3.02)
Tuberculosis (A15-A19)	0.504 (3.10)	0.097 (2.49)	0.423 (3.44)	0.126 (1.63)	0.023 (2.02)	0.100 (1.52)
Other infectious diseases	0.286 (1.76)	0.047 (1.20)	0.232 (1.88)	0.108 (1.40)	0.010 (0.86)	0.098 (1.50)
All Cancers (C00-D48)	2.799 (17.25)	0.857 (21.91)	1.945 (15.80)	1.041 (13.54)	0.113 (10.04)	0.921 (14.03)
Stomach cancer (C16)	0.529 (3.26)	0.117 (2.98)	0.493 (4.01)	0.183 (2.38)	0.025 (2.20)	0.155 (2.36)
Colorectal cancer (C18-C21)	0.017 (0.10)	0.001 (0.02)	−0.010 (−0.08)	0.062 (0.81)	−0.001 (−0.11)	0.064 (0.98)
Liver cancer (C22)	0.669 (4.12)	0.188 (4.81)	0.441 (3.58)	0.179 (2.33)	0.025 (2.17)	0.155 (2.36)
Lung/bronchial cancer (C33-C34)	0.928 (5.72)	0.334 (8.54)	0.677 (5.50)	0.179 (2.33)	0.052 (4.61)	0.123 (1.87)
Breast cancer (C50)	-	-	-	0.058 (0.75)	−0.015 (−1.32)	0.072 (1.10)
Uterine cervix/unspecified uterine cancer (C53-C55)	-	-	-	0.108 (1.40)	0.023 (2.04)	0.084 (1.28)
Prostate cancer (C61)	−0.028 (−0.17)	−0.033 (−0.83)	−0.026 (−0.21)	-	-	-
Other cancers	0.685 (4.22)	0.250 (6.40)	0.371 (3.01)	0.272 (3.54)	0.005 (0.45)	0.267 (4.08)
Endocrine, nutritional & metabolic diseases (E00-E88)	0.554 (3.42)	0.154 (3.94)	0.313 (2.54)	0.376 (4.88)	0.113 (10.03)	0.248 (3.77)
Diabetes mellitus (E10-E14)	0.474 (2.92)	0.138 (3.52)	0.243 (1.97)	0.337 (4.38)	0.106 (9.41)	0.217 (3.30)
Other endocrine diseases	0.080 (0.49)	0.017 (0.42)	0.056 (0.45)	0.039 (0.50)	0.007 (0.62)	0.028 (0.43)
Disease of the circulatory system (I00-I99)	1.949 (12.01)	0.612 (15.65)	1.167 (9.48)	1.624 (21.11)	0.328 (29.01)	1.287 (19.62)
Hypertensive disease (I10-I13)	0.068 (0.42)	0.039 (1.00)	0.044 (0.36)	0.109 (1.41)	0.040 (3.52)	0.066 (1.01)
Ischaemic heart disease (I20-I25)	0.318 (1.96)	0.062 (1.57)	0.156 (1.27)	0.273 (3.55)	0.065 (5.72)	0.206 (3.13)
Cerebrovascular disease (I60-I69)	1.117 (6.88)	0.416 (10.63)	0.661 (5.37)	0.801 (10.41)	0.168 (14.84)	0.640 (9.75)
Other cardiovascular diseases	0.447 (2.75)	0.096 (2.45)	0.306 (2.48)	0.441 (5.74)	0.056 (4.93)	0.376 (5.73)
Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J98)	0.833 (5.13)	0.212 (5.43)	0.809 (6.57)	0.329 (4.28)	0.078 (6.87)	0.252 (3.85)
Pneumonia (J12-J18)	0.191 (1.18)	0.030 (0.76)	0.172 (1.40)	0.095 (1.23)	0.015 (1.36)	0.079 (1.20)
Chronic lower respiratory disease (J40-J47)	0.445 (2.74)	0.155 (3.96)	0.418 (3.39)	0.163 (2.12)	0.036 (3.17)	0.133 (2.03)
Other respiratory diseases	0.196 (1.21)	0.028 (0.71)	0.219 (1.78)	0.071 (0.92)	0.027 (2.35)	0.041 (0.62)
Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K92)	2.110 (13.00)	0.408 (10.44)	1.684 (13.68)	0.479 (6.23)	0.091 (8.01)	0.377 (5.75)
Liver diseases (K70-K76)	1.891 (11.65)	0.361 (9.22)	1.505 (12.22)	0.349 (4.54)	0.067 (5.91)	0.274 (4.18)
Other digestive diseases	0.219 (1.35)	0.048 (1.22)	0.179 (1.46)	0.130 (1.69)	0.024 (2.10)	0.103 (1.57)
All external causes (V01-Y89)	4.665 (28.75)	1.099 (28.09)	3.509 (28.50)	1.574 (20.46)	0.271 (24.01)	1.296 (19.75)
Transport accidents (V01-V99)	1.197 (7.38)	0.317 (8.09)	0.866 (7.03)	0.370 (4.81)	0.052 (4.64)	0.319 (4.86)
Suicide (X60-X84)	1.750 (10.79)	0.444 (11.36)	1.297 (10.53)	0.666 (8.66)	0.143 (12.68)	0.519 (7.90)
Other external causes	1.717 (10.58)	0.338 (8.64)	1.347 (10.94)	0.538 (6.99)	0.076 (6.69)	0.458 (6.99)
Ill-defined (R00-R99)	1.149 (7.08)	0.304 (7.77)	1.115 (9.06)	0.854 (11.10)	0.046 (4.09)	0.866 (13.20)
Residual	1.377 (8.49)	0.120 (3.07)	1.116 (9.06)	1.183 (15.37)	0.057 (5.06)	1.116 (17.01)

Note: I = College or higher, II = Middle or high school, III = Elementary or less.