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Table 3 Annual changes of absolute and relative inequalities in income and all-cause mortality

From: The impact of increasing income inequalities on educational inequalities in mortality - An analysis of six European countries

 

Income

All-cause mortality

 

Absolute inequality

Relative inequality

Absolute inequality

Relative inequality

 

Men

Women

Men

Women

Men

Women

Men

Women

Belgium

30.00*

34.61

0.29

1.15

2.27

8.45

1.67

2.63

Denmark

74.04

60.16

2.08

2.06

-18.06

-4.35

-1.05

-0.09

England&Wales

101.91*

88.60***

3.08

3.16***

-6.40*

-1.58

0.87*

0.52

France

-3.33

5.67

-2.75

-1.18

-14.86

5.18

-3.73

2.05

Slovenia

6.17

2.44

-4.81

-2.85

8.37

8.62

5.64***

5.00

Switzerland

59.77*

43.86

0.96

0.71

-9.59*

0.43

2.14*

1.26

  1. The annual changes are the slope coefficients from linear regression models of the particular inequality measure on the variable “year”. Statistically significant results are printed in bold, significance levels are *:p < 0.1; **:p < 0.05; ***:p < 0.01. Slopes for relative differences have been multiplied by 100 to make them more legible: 1.0 means that relative inequality changes e.g. from 1.55 to 1.56 in one year. For absolute differences, e.g. a slope of 30.00 means that absolute income inequality increases by US$ 30 per year