Table 3.

Estimated life expectancies at selected ages at baseline by occupation¹, United States, 1997-2014

	Both Sexes		Male		Female
	LE	SE	LE	SE	LE	SE
Sample size	418,332		195,585		222,747
Age 18
Professional and managerial	64.01	0.16	60.97	0.22	67.00	0.22
Sales/clerical and tech support	61.58	0.16	56.41	0.28	63.86	0.20
Service	57.98	0.20	53.70	0.32	60.49	0.25
Craft and repair	55.37	0.21	54.23	0.23	58.66	0.42
Laborer	53.09	0.32	51.55	0.35	59.65	0.73
Age 45
Professional and managerial	39.16	0.14	36.37	0.20	41.95	0.20
Sales/clerical and tech support	37.63	0.15	33.08	0.26	39.54	0.18
Service	34.83	0.18	31.39	0.29	36.68	0.23
Craft and repair	33.07	0.17	32.08	0.20	35.42	0.33
Laborer	30.95	0.27	29.79	0.30	35.72	0.66
Age 65
Professional and managerial	23.28	0.14	21.05	0.19	25.58	0.20
Sales/clerical and tech support	22.78	0.14	19.25	0.25	24.05	0.16
Service	20.85	0.17	18.12	0.29	22.11	0.21
Craft and repair	19.68	0.16	18.81	0.19	21.24	0.27
Laborer	18.16	0.26	17.26	0.28	21.62	0.62
	NHW		NHB		Hispanics
Sample size	268,551		59,810		68,486
Age 18
Professional and managerial	63.90	0.17	66.12	0.60	64.07	0.71
Sales/clerical and tech support	61.71	0.19	62.24	0.59	64.01	0.73
Service	57.43	0.26	57.00	0.43	62.53	0.58
Craft and repair	55.58	0.25	55.95	0.59	56.82	0.54
Laborer	53.40	0.40	52.92	0.71	54.86	0.81
Age 45
Professional and managerial	38.77	0.15	42.12	0.57	40.19	0.69
Sales/clerical and tech support	37.29	0.16	38.76	0.58	41.46	0.75
Service	33.63	0.24	33.77	0.39	40.89	0.58
Craft and repair	32.48	0.20	33.11	0.48	36.43	0.51
Laborer	30.31	0.34	30.05	0.61	35.28	0.76
Age 65
Professional and managerial	22.67	0.15	27.98	0.56	24.92	0.70
Sales/clerical and tech support	22.29	0.15	24.95	0.61	27.01	0.78
Service	19.75	0.22	20.68	0.37	26.29	0.60
Craft and repair	18.91	0.18	20.83	0.46	23.13	0.50
Laborer	17.43	0.32	18.19	0.62	21.84	0.73

LE=Life expectancy, SE=standard error, NHW=non-Hispanic Whites, NHB=non-Hispanic Blacks. ¹Occupation was recoded based on a modified variable of the 1995 revised Standard Occupational Classification-based codes, offering a consistent long-term classification of occupations