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Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2014 Nov 20;127:8–18. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.024

Table 1.

Sex and age-specific standardized mortality ratios for white men and women by educational attainment, U.S. 1960

Years of school completed	Men		Women
Years of school completed	25–64 years	65+ years	25–64 years	65+ years
All persons	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
0–4	1.15	1.02	1.60	1.17
5–7	1.14	1.00	1.18	1.04
8	1.07	1.00	1.08	1.03
High school
1–3 years	1.03		0.91
4 years	0.91	0.99	0.87	0.94
College
1–3 years	0.85		0.82
4 years or more	0.70	0.98	0.78	0.70

Source: Reported in Kitagawa and Hauser 1973, Table 2.1.