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

Table 5 Association between mortality risk, demographic characteristics, typology of pension, and socioeconomic characteristics

	Coefficient	Exp(coef)	S.E.	Pr(>\|z\|)
Female	−0.5764***	0.56190	0.08019	< 0.0001
Unmarried	0.1407	1.15112	0.11686	0.22847
Separated	−0.2697	0.76359	0.26621	0.31098
Divorced	0.4491*	1.56684	0.27071	0.09715
Widowed	0.0799	1.08317	0.09542	0.40245
North-East	0.2201**	1.24617	0.09740	0.02385
North-West	0.1871**	1.20568	0.09480	0.04849
South & Islands	0.0031	1.00307	0.08629	0.97166
Self-employed	−0.3011***	0.73999	0.09546	0.00161
Farmer	−0.1809*	0.83454	0.09605	0.05968
Disability pension	0.3862***	1.47132	0.10647	< 0.0001
Social disability pension	1.3323***	3.78957	0.13104	< 0.0001
Social pension	0.1136	1.12025	0.10053	0.25869
Edu. Lower secondary	−0.22983**	0.79467	0.10740	0.03236
Edu. Upper secondary or more	0.07138	1.07399	0.10182	0.48325
Medium ab. to make ends meet	−0.18922***	0.82760	0.07080	0.00753
High ab. to make ends meet	−0.60094***	0.54830	0.17771	0.00072

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, “Old-age pension” for type of pension, “Primary or none” for education level, “low” for household financial situation. Significance legend: (***) = 99%; (**) = 95%; (*) = 90%. Likelihood Ratio Test between models 4 and 3 = 0.21 on 2 degrees of freedom, p-value not significant. Source: elaborations on AD-SILC data

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