Table 5.

Spearman’s correlation coefficients between income, education, and external-cause mortality

	Age- and sex-standardized rates (per 100,000)∗			Standardized mortality ratios compared to general population†
	All external	Suicide	Transport	All external	Suicide	Transport
18 industries‡
Income	–0.38	–0.45	–0.29	–0.36	–0.49	–0.32
Education	–0.82	–0.61	–0.68	–0.81	–0.74	–0.70
16 industries§
Income	–0.49	–0.55	–0.39	–0.47	–0.55	–0.42
Education	–0.81	–0.55	–0.62	–0.79	–0.72	–0.66

^∗Calculated using direct standardization method.

^†Calculated using indirect standardization method.

^‡Public administration and defense, compulsory social security, activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies were excluded because data were not available.

^§Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, mining and quarrying were additionally excluded from 18 industries.