The contribution of educational inequalities to lifespan variation

Table 1 Countries and study type included in the analysis

Country	Years¹	Study type	Person-years of follow-up	Number of deaths	Missing education (%)
Sweden²	1991-2000	Longitudinal, census-linked	48 340 986	919 508	9.8
Norway	1991-2000	Longitudinal, census-linked	22 262 277	433 282	2.3
Finland³	1991-2000	Longitudinal, census-linked	27 550 171	473 873	0.0
Belgium	1991-1995	Longitudinal, census-linked	27 635 206	486 222	6.0
Switzerland	1991-2000	Longitudinal, census-linked	30 728 441	538 619	0.6
France⁴	1990-1999	Longitudinal, census-linked	2 720 978	43 024	0.0
Slovenia	1991-2000	Longitudinal, census-linked	10 325 537	165 423	1.3
Czech Republic	1999-2003	Cross-sectional, unlinked	30 308 765	535 264	0.0
Poland	2001-2003	Cross-sectional, unlinked	65 844 117	1 058 745	2.0
Estonia	1998-2002	Cross-sectional, unlinked	4 141 440	60 794	2.3
Lithuania	2000-2002	Cross-sectional, unlinked	6 189 927	115 803	0.5

Special remarks
¹ The years pertain to the years used from the Human Mortality Database matched to the Eurothine data.
² The missing education was primarily in ages above 75 (at beginning of study). We assumed the educational proportions above this age to be the same as those observed in the 70-74 age category.
³ Unknown education was classified as elementary education.
⁴ Permanent demographic sample of 1% of population.

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