Disparities in length of life across developed countries: measuring and decomposing changes over time within and between country groups

Table 10 Between- and within-group variance and its distribution by country groups in selected years

	Males					Females
	1970	1984	1994	2004	2010^a	1970	1984	1994	2004	2010^a
Total cross-country variance, years squared	3.89	10.91	27.27	27.28	23.59	2.29	4.81	9.36	9.20	7.86
Between-group variance, years squared	0.99	8.76	24.78	24.08	20.69	0.42	3.38	7.76	6.68	5.56
EME, %	29.3	30.5	27.6	27.0	28.2	15.6	33.3	30.1	29.2	30.2
CEE, %	8.7	11.8	5.4	4.5	6.4	83.0	32.6	10.7	8.5	11.2
FSU, %	62.0	57.7	67.0	68.5	65.4	1.5	34.0	59.2	62.4	58.6
Between-group standard deviation, years	0.99	2.96	4.98	4.91	4.55	0.65	1.84	2.79	2.58	2.36
Within-group variance, years squared	2.90	2.15	2.49	3.20	2.90	1.87	1.43	1.61	2.53	2.30
EME, %	80.0	71.6	46.6	34.7	29.9	92.7	84.9	67.8	51.4	47.1
CEE, %	7.2	16.2	21.9	26.6	32.4	1.8	6.0	16.1	20.6	22.0
FSU, %	12.9	12.2	31.5	38.7	37.8	5.5	9.1	16.1	28.0	30.9
Within-group standard deviation, years	1.70	1.46	1.58	1.79	1.70	1.37	1.20	1.27	1.59	1.52

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