To what extent do rising mortality inequalities by education and marital status attenuate the general mortality decline? The case of Finland in 1971-2030.

Autor/inn/en	Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; Andreev, Evgueni M.; Jdanov, Dmitri A.; Jasilionis, Domantas; Valkonen, Tapani
Institution	Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung
Titel	To what extent do rising mortality inequalities by education and marital status attenuate the general mortality decline? The case of Finland in 1971-2030. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: In welchem Umfang mildern zunehmende Mortalitätsunterschiede durch Bildung und Familienstatus den allgemeinen Mortalitätsrückgang ab? Finnland 1971-2030.
Quelle	Rostock (2009), 27 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	MPIDR Working Paper. 2009-018
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsdefizit; Soziale Ungleichheit; Geschichte (Histor); Bevölkerungsentwicklung; Demografie; Demografischer Wandel; Sterblichkeit; Altern; Familienstand; Finnland
Abstract	"This study examines the relationship between growing inequality within the population, and the general mortality decline in Finland after 1971. The general mortality trend is considered as a simultaneous shift of population groups toward lower mortality over time, with the group-specific mortality rates linked to the mortality trend in the best practice (vanguard) group. The inequality measure accounting for all groups and their population weights reveals increases in both relative and absolute mortality inequalities. Changes in population composition by education and by marital status tend to compensate each other and the combined change does not produce significant effect on the total mortality. The widening of mortality inequalities produces important impact on the total mortality trend. The modeling allows to quantify this impact. If mortality inequalities remained frozen after 2000, the total mortality in 2026-30 would be by about one quarter lower compared to trend-based expectations." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2010/3