Table 5.

Mortality rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals by migrant group: age- and fully-adjusted models for women aged 65+ years during the first COVID-19 wave in 2020 compared with the reference period in 2019.

	2020		2019
	Age-adjusted model	Fully-adjusted model	Age-adjusted model	Fully-adjusted model
Region of origin
Belgium	ref.	ref.	ref.	ref.
EU-15	1.12 (1.05–1.20)	1.09 (1.02–1.16)	1.00 (0.92–1.09)	0.97 (0.89–1.06)
Other Europe	0.99 (0.84–1.17)	0.90 (0.76–1.06)	1.11 (0.91–1.36)	1.01 (0.83–1.23)
Turkey	0.98 (0.73–1.31)	0.91 (0.68–1.22)	0.85 (0.58–1.25)	0.77 (0.52–1.13)
Northern Africa	0.89 (0.74–1.08)	0.83 (0.68–1.01)	0.80 (0.63–1.02)	0.71 (0.55–0.92)
SSA	1.41 (1.02–1.95)	1.18 (0.85–1.63)	1.26 (0.82–1.93)	1.06 (0.69–1.63)
Other	0.69 (0.50–0.95)	0.63 (0.45–0.87)	0.73 (0.49–1.09)	0.67 (0.44–1.00)
Age	1.14 (1.14–1.14)	1.09 (1.09–1.10)	1.13 (1.13–1.14)	1.10 (1.09–1.10)
Household type
With partner		ref.		ref.
Without partner		1.34 (1.28–1.42)		1.29 (1.21–1.37)
Other		2.13 (1.96–2.32)		1.84 (1.67–2.04)
Collective HH		5.30 (4.98–5.64)		3.71 (3.44–3.99)
Population density
Low		ref.		ref.
Intermediate		1.03 (0.99–1.07)		0.98 (0.93–1.03)
High		1.13 (1.08–1.17)		1.04 (0.99–1.09)
Educational level
Primary or less		ref.		ref.
Lower secondary		0.93 (0.89–0.97)		0.88 (0.83–0.93)
Upper secondary		0.82 (0.77–0.86)		0.84 (0.79–0.90)
Tertiary		0.73 (0.68–0.78)		0.68 (0.62–0.75)
Unknown		0.95 (0.90–1.00)		1.00 (0.93–1.07)
Income level
Low		ref.		ref.
Middle		0.95 (0.92–0.99)		0.90 (0.86–0.94)
High		0.90 (0.84–0.96)		0.95 (0.88–1.04)
Unknown		0.84 (0.72–0.98)		0.80 (0.65–0.98)

The age-adjusted model contains region of origin and age; The fully-adjusted model contains region of origin, age, sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics.