NDLI: Lifespan Variation by Occupational Class: Compression or Stagnation Over Time?

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Author	van Raalte, Alyson A. Martikainen, Pekka Myrskylä, Mikko
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Cross-sectional analyses of adult lifespan variation have found an inverse association between socioeconomic position and lifespan variation, but the trends by social class are unknown. We investigated trends in lifespan variation over four decades (1971–2010) by occupational social class (manual, lower nonmanual, upper nonmanual, other) using Finnish register data. We performed age and cause-of-death decompositions of lifespan variation for each sex (a) by occupational class over time and (b) between occupational classes at a shared level of life expectancy. Although life expectancy increased in all classes, lifespan variation was stable among manual workers and decreased only among nonmanual classes. These differences were caused by early-adult mortality: older-age lifespan variation declined for all the classes, but variation in early-adult mortality increased for all classes except the highest. The manual class’s high and stagnant lifespan variation was driven by declines in circulatory diseases that were equally spread over early mortality-compressing and older mortality-expanding ages, as well as by high early-adult mortality from external causes. Results were similar for men and women. The results of this study, which is the first to document trends in lifespan variation by social class, suggest that mortality compression is compatible with increasing life expectancy but currently achieved only by higher occupational classes.
Starting Page	73
Ending Page	95
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00703370
Journal	Demography
Volume Number	51
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15337790
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-11-16
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Lifespan variation Life disparity Life expectancy Mortality compression Socioeconomic inequality Demography Sociology Population Economics Medicine/Public Health Geography (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography

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