Table 6.

Characteristics of clusters from the HAC

Cluster	1	2	3	4	5
Socio-professional category (mean in each cluster)
Farmers (%)	1.17	0.57	4.06	1.96	11.02
Craftsmen storekeepers entrepreneurs (%)	5.49	6.26	6.23	9.68	9.39
Managers or professional occupations (%)	9.96	24.65	8.54	NS	6.56
Intermediate professions—technicians (%)	23.41	29.15	21.95	23.32	17.77
Employees (%)	30.96	24.24	26.86	31.53	26.97
Skilled workers (%)	27.69	14.38	31.61	21.32	27.29
Demographic structure (mean in each cluster)
0–20 years old (%)	25.47	26.24	25.77	20.69	19.45
20–60 years old (%)	53.05	53.91	52.25	48.42	46.95
60+ (%)	21.90	20.07	22.53	31.36	34.30
Sanitary variable (mean in each cluster)
Unemployed persons (%)	13.15	7.80	9.30	12.94	10.12
15–64 years old retired or pre-retired persons (%)	13.50	11.33	13.77	18.63	19.75
Standardized rate of in-hospital mortality for stroke (per 100,000 inhabitants)	105.13	76.47	114.07	155.41	193.41