Life expectancy inequalities in the elderly by socioeconomic status: evidence from Italy

Table 12 Association between mortality risk, demographic characteristics, typology of pension, socioeconomic characteristics, only old-age retired

	Coefficient	Exp(coef)	SE	Pr(>\|z\|)
Female	−0.6040***	0.54662	0.10368	< 0.0001
Unmarried	0.1753	1.19158	0.14280	0.21965
Separated	−0.2369	0.78907	0.31744	0.45550
Divorced	0.4284	1.53479	0.33414	0.19981
Widowed	0.14497	1.15601	0.12955	0.26311
North-East	0.1237	1.13168	0.12075	0.30563
North-West	0.1046	1.11024	0.11561	0.36570
South & Islands	0.0224	1.02264	0.11301	0.84295
Self-employed	−0.2434**	0.78396	0.11567	0.03536
Farmer	−0.2273*	0.79665	0.13808	0.09967
Edu. lower secondary	0.1764	0.83825	0.12858	0.17001
Edu. upper secondary or more	0.1471	1.15852	0.11563	0.20317
Medium Ab. To make ends meet	−0.2008**	0.81807	0.09149	0.02817
High Ab. To make ends meet	−0.8598***	0.42327	0.23242	0.00022

Aggregated former occupational groups. Model 4
Reference categories are: “Male” for sex, “Married” for marital status, “Center” for geographical area of residence and “Employee (blue+white collar)” for former occupational status, “Primary or none” for education level, “low” for household financial situation. Significance legend: (***) = 99%; (**) = 95%; (*) = 90%. Source: elaborations on AD-SILC data

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