Table 1.

Descriptives of the study: numbers of deaths and population size and age-standardised mortality rates by sex and educational level, Colombia, 1998–2012

Sex	Educational level*	Cancer deaths†	Population size	ASMR‡ (95% CIs)
Men	Primary	50 126	67 815 336	54.0 (53.5 to 54.5)
	Secondary	22 273	67 742 806	45.1 (44.4 to 45.8)
	Tertiary	9493	30 715 631	41.4 (40.5 to 42.3)
	Total	81 892	166 273 773	48.9 (48.8 to 49.1)
Women	Primary	65 336	68 637 666	64.7 (64.2 to 65.2)
	Secondary	30 414	72 387 214	54.2 (53.5 to 54.9)
	Tertiary	10 449	35 149 442	47.2 (46.2 to 48.3)
	Total	106 199	176 174 322	57.8 (57.6 to 58.0)

*Educational attainment values registered after final imputation. Primary=up to elementary or primary school; secondary=any level of high school; tertiary=any level of postsecondary education after high school including college and university.

†Cancer deaths after imputation.

‡ASMR: Age standardised mortality rates per 100 000 population; Estimates (WHO standard population, 1997) for educational level combine results from five databases generated by multiple imputations, appropriately reflecting uncertainty attributable to missing values.