Mortality effects of average education: a multilevel study of small neighbourhoods in rural and urban areas in Norway

Table 2 Effects of average education in the BSU on individual mortality among women and men aged 60-89 in 1990-1992 (odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals)^a

	Smallest municipalities		Medium-sized municipalities		Largest municipalities
Panel A:
Average education in BSU	1.016	(0.980, 1.052)	0.970**	(0.942, 1.000)	0.908****	(0.887, 0.929)
Panel B:
Average education in BSU
< 10.9 years	0.993	(0.957, 1.031)	1.006	(0.962, 1.052)	1.122***	(1.037, 1.214)
10.9-11.2 years	0.983	(0.944, 1.022)	0.991	(0.947, 1.037)	0.989	(0.921, 1.062)
11.2-11.4 years ^b	1		1		1
11.4-11.7 years	1.025	(0.983, 1.071)	0.993	(0.950, 1.036)	0.989	(0.936, 1.045)
11.7-12.2 years	1.053**	(1.001, 1.109)	1.010	(0.965, 1.057)	0.956**	(0.906, 1.008)
> 12.2 years	0.977	(0.893, 1.069)	0.943**	(0.891, 0.999)	0.870****	(0.825, 0.915)

* p < 0.10; ** p < 0.05; *** p < 0.01; **** p < 0.001 two-sided
^a The models also included individual education, age, sex, the logarithm of the population size in the BSU, the average age of the population in the BSU, the logarithm of the population size in the municipality, a random term at the BSU level, and a random term at the municipality level. In panel A, the variances of the random effects at BSU and municipality level were 0.0264 and 0.0113, respectively, in the smallest municipalities, 0.0506 and 0.0045 in the medium-sized municipalities, and 0.0499 and 0.0023 in the largest municipalities.
^b Reference category

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