Table 3.

Annual changes of absolute and relative inequalities in income and all-cause mortality

	Income				All-cause mortality
	Absolute inequality		Relative inequality		Absolute inequality		Relative inequality
	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women
Belgium	30.00*	34.61	0.29	1.15	2.27	8.45	1.67	2.63
Denmark	74.04	60.16	2.08	2.06	-18.06	-4.35	-1.05	-0.09
England&Wales	101.91*	88.60***	3.08	3.16***	-6.40*	-1.58	0.87*	0.52
France	-3.33	5.67	-2.75	-1.18	-14.86	5.18	-3.73	2.05
Slovenia	6.17	2.44	-4.81	-2.85	8.37	8.62	5.64***	5.00
Switzerland	59.77*	43.86	0.96	0.71	-9.59*	0.43	2.14*	1.26

The annual changes are the slope coefficients from linear regression models of the particular inequality measure on the variable “year”. Statistically significant results are printed in bold, significance levels are *:p < 0.1; **:p < 0.05; ***:p < 0.01. Slopes for relative differences have been multiplied by 100 to make them more legible: 1.0 means that relative inequality changes e.g. from 1.55 to 1.56 in one year. For absolute differences, e.g. a slope of 30.00 means that absolute income inequality increases by US$ 30 per year