Table 1.

Data description by age group, sex and birth area (%).

	Ages <65 years						Ages 65+ years
	Men			Women			Men			Women
	(A)	(B)	(C)	(A)	(B)	(C)	(A)	(B)	(C)	(A)	(B)	(C)
Number of individuals	2039	6076	15,166	2096	6292	15,218	1697	4998	12,873	1959	5870	14,255
Number of person years	23,064	77,960	200,415	23,611	84,099	205,746	17,660	46,050	118,197	23,618	60,896	145,024
Number of sickness benefit recipients	1422	5649	13,365	1527	6143	14,445
unstandardised rate	6.2	7.2	6.7	6.5	7.3	7.0
Number of disability pension recipients	6295	21,091	46,575	5486	19,273	43,531
unstandardised rate	27.3	27.1	23.2	23.2	22.9	21.2
Number of deaths	336	1074	2272	137	422	959	625	1592	3657	435	991	2399
unstandardised rate	1.5	1.4	1.1	0.6	0.5	0.5	3.5	3.5	3.1	1.8	1.6	1.7
Deaths by main cause, %
Ischemic heart disease	34.5	31.1	27.7	18.2	13.5	12.2	28.2	30.5	28.5	22.2	21.8	18.3
Other cardiovascular diseases	11.9	12.2	13.1	16.8	14.0	12.3	16.0	15.6	13.9	19.6	19.5	18.0
Lung cancer and respiratory diseases	11.9	11.4	13.0	5.1	7.3	8.0	13.9	14.4	15.1	8.8	8.1	8.9
Other cancer	15.2	15.9	17.1	31.4	38.4	41.4	19.3	18.5	22.7	24.0	26.7	30.9
Other diseases	9.5	7.6	7.2	13.1	10.4	11.2	13.7	11.8	11.9	21.4	18.2	19.2
Alcohol related and external causes	17.0	21.8	22.0	15.3	16.4	14.9	8.9	9.2	7.9	3.9	5.8	4.7

Notes: (A) Born in Ceded Karelia, (B) Born in Eastern Finland, (C) Born elsewhere in Finland. Number of person years is the number of individuals multiplied with the number of calendar years they were observed. All information refers to the period 1988–2012, except for numbers on main causes of death, which are for 1988–2011.