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Between 1991 and 2001, the lowest mortality rates occurred among the university-educated, the employed, those in professional and managerial occupations, and those in the top income brackets.
The highest mortality rates were among people with less than secondary graduation, those who were unemployed or not in the labour force, those in unskilled jobs, and those in the lowest income brackets.
Life expectancy increased in each successively higher income group for both sexes.
Only 51% of men in the poorest one-fifth of the income distribution were expected to survive to the age of 75, compared with 72% of those in the richest one-fifth of the income distribution.
Among women, 72% in the poorest one-fifth were expected to survive to 75, compared with 84% in the richest one-fifth.
For both sexes, and for all except the oldest age group (85 or older), mortality rates were highest among those with the least education, and fell with each increment of education.
Note: "The Canadian census mortality follow-up study, 1991 through 2001" is the first in Canada to examine mortality by socioeconomic status in the total population through a linkage of census and mortality records. It tracked mortality from June 4, 1991, to December 31, 2001, among a 15% sample of the adult population (about 2.7 million people), who completed the long-form census questionnaire. During this period, there were more than 260,000 deaths in the sample.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey numbers, including related surveys, 3233 and 3901.
The article "The Canadian census mortality follow-up study, 1991 through 2001," which is part of the online September 2008 edition of Health Reports, Vol. 19, no. 3 (82-003-XWE, free), is now available from the Publications module of our website. A printed version of the publication (82-003-XPE, $24/$68) is also available.
For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Russell Wilkins (613-951-5305; russell.wilkins@statcan.gc.ca), Health Information and Research Division.
For more information about the publication Health Reports, contact Christine Wright (613-951-1765; christine.wright@statcan.gc.ca), Health Information and Research Division.
