From: Trends in total and cause-specific mortality by marital status among elderly Norwegian men and women
 | Men | Women | ||||||
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Time period | 1971-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2007 | 1971-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2007 |
Number of person-years | 804 394 | 1 062 962 | 1 247 666 | 1 084 196 | 1 185 901 | 1 696 600 | 2 010 678 | 1 672 275 |
Number of deaths | 77 617 | 99 654 | 111 268 | 85 393 | 86 037 | 109 305 | 121 254 | 92 983 |
Crude death rate | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 |
Cause of death (%) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Cancers | 18.12 | 20.60 | 22.89 | 25.83 | 14.21 | 16.63 | 17.77 | 20.22 |
Circulatory diseases | 55.08 | 52.29 | 49.12 | 41.54 | 58.11 | 55.36 | 51.32 | 43.88 |
Respiratory diseases | 11.50 | 11.30 | 11.49 | 11.69 | 11.54 | 10.40 | 10.61 | 10.16 |
Other diseases | 12.62 | 12.65 | 13.24 | 17.26 | 12.51 | 13.68 | 16.92 | 22.27 |
External causes | 2.63 | 3.05 | 2.95 | 3.08 | 3.58 | 3.83 | 3.20 | 3.15 |
Missing cause of death | 0.05 | 0.11 | 0.31 | 0.60 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.18 | 0.32 |
Mean age in years (SD) | 79.7 (3.8) | 79.9 (3.9) | 80.0 (3.9) | 80.3 (3.9) | 80.0 (3.9) | 80.4 (4.0) | 80.6 (4.0) | 81.1 (4.1) |
Marital status (%) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Never married | 12.2 | 11.5 | 9.7 | 8.3 | 20.3 | 16.5 | 10.7 | 7.0 |
Married | 58.7 | 62.4 | 65.3 | 66.6 | 23.9 | 24.4 | 27.2 | 29.7 |
Widowed | 27.4 | 24.0 | 21.8 | 20.2 | 53.1 | 56.1 | 58.3 | 58.2 |
Divorced | 1.7 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 5.1 |
Education (%) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Compulsory | 70.5 | 63.5 | 54.4 | 44.6 | 76.3 | 70.1 | 64.9 | 56.7 |
Secondary | 22.9 | 28.6 | 35.5 | 40.6 | 20.0 | 25.5 | 30.0 | 36.0 |
Higher | 4.1 | 4.5 | 6.0 | 9.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 6.8 |
Postgraduate | 2.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 5.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
Region (%) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
East | 50.5 | 50.3 | 49.9 | 50.6 | 52.2 | 52.2 | 51.2 | 51.0 |
South | 5.9 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.7 |
West | 24.1 | 24.7 | 25.2 | 24.8 | 24.2 | 24.3 | 24.6 | 24.5 |
Central | 9.3 | 9.3 | 9.2 | 9.1 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.8 | 8.8 |
North | 10.2 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 9.9 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.8 | 10.0 |
Centrality (%) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Least central | 16.8 | 16.0 | 14.6 | 13.1 | 13.6 | 13.2 | 13.0 | 12.5 |
Less central | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 6.7 | 6.9 | 6.9 |
Quite central | 19.3 | 19.3 | 19.4 | 19.3 | 18.1 | 18.1 | 18.5 | 18.8 |
Central | 56.2 | 57.1 | 58.5 | 60.4 | 61.5 | 62.0 | 61.6 | 61.8 |