Fig. 2.

All-cause mortality rate for non-Hispanic Whites by age-group and level.

^aData from CPS March (“Center for Economic and Policy Research. 2016. March CPS Uniform Extracts, Version 1.0. Washington, DC,” n.d.) and Mortality Multiple Cause-of-Death Public Use Record from NVSS (“National Center for Health Statistics. Compressed Mortality File, 1999–2016 as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Hyattsville, Maryland. 2017.,” 2017).

^bGA, OK, RI, and SD are excluded due to absence of education on death certificates until 2003. Post 2004 includes the four states even though education is still missing because states are unidentifiable in the public-use Vital Statistics data from 2004.