Table 3.
Relative frequencies of causes of death, stratified by SRH. The proportions indicate which causes of death occurred most frequently for each SRH level, and thus sum to 100% within each SRH level (N = 23,427).
| Total | Dead |
Cause of death |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| External causes |
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| Neoplasms | Circulatory | Nervous system | Suicide | Other ext. | Other/unknown | |||||||||
| Not so good/poor | 2538 | 53 | 9 | (17%) | 6 | (11%) | 6 | (11%) | 12 | (23%) | 11 | (21%) | 9 | (17%) |
| Good | 13,878 | 140 | 39 | (28%) | 16 | (11%) | 10 | (7%) | 26 | (19%) | 31 | (22%) | 19 | (14%) |
| Very good | 7011 | 64 | 22 | (34%) | 4 | (6%) | 2 | (3%) | 15 | (23%) | 19 | (30%) | 2 | (3%) |