Table 1 Study population, Swiss National Cohort, 1990–2008, 25–89 years at baseline
From: Healthy migrants but unhealthy offspring? A retrospective cohort study among Italians in Switzerland
Men | Women | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IT, *IT | IT, *CH | CH, *IT | CH, *CH | IT, *IT | IT, *CH | CH, *IT | CH, *CH | Total | ||
Individuals included in analysis | German-speaking Switzerland | 74,528 | 8,315 | 5,250 | 1,192,789 | 46,231 | 5,482 | 14,110 | 1,293,754 | 2,640,459 |
French-speaking Switzerland | 32,068 | 3,807 | 2,983 | 323,026 | 20,529 | 2,400 | 8,669 | 365,719 | 759,201 | |
German- + French-speaking Switzerland | 106,596 | 12,122 | 8,233 | 1,515,815 | 66,760 | 7,882 | 22,779 | 1,659,473 | 3,399,660 | |
Person-years | 1990-2000 | 748,976 | 34,473 | 68,081 | 10,631,070 | 480,393 | 19,316 | 190,449 | 11,935,429 | 24,108,187 |
2000-2008 | 589,674 | 64,436 | 51,598 | 9,200,327 | 383,932 | 41,987 | 146,106 | 10,249,943 | 20,728,002 | |
Deaths | 1990-2000 | 6,241 | 1,166 | 1,132 | 213,898 | 2,658 | 414 | 2,480 | 180,515 | 408,504 |
2000-2008 | 6,323 | 607 | 885 | 148,670 | 2,746 | 252 | 2,286 | 128,506 | 290,275 | |
Mean age on 1990,12,4 | 46.0 | 38.2 | 53.0 | 49.4 | 47.0 | 36.5 | 55.9 | 51.4 | 50.2 | |
Education (%) | Compulsory schooling | 59.1 | 21.4 | 26.9 | 19.6 | 81.7 | 33.7 | 62.4 | 39.5 | 32.2 |
Secondary | 35.5 | 64.7 | 49.8 | 57.7 | 16.8 | 62.4 | 32.6 | 54.5 | 54.5 | |
Upper Secondary | 3.9 | 11.0 | 13.2 | 15.1 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 3.9 | 8.9 | |
Tertiary | 1.4 | 3.0 | 10.2 | 7.5 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 4.5 | |
Marital status (%) | Single | 11.1 | 41.6 | 8.1 | 19.2 | 7.7 | 41.8 | 3.4 | 15.8 | 17.1 |
Married | 83.4 | 51.5 | 83.4 | 72.2 | 81.9 | 50.1 | 71.6 | 63.0 | 68.1 | |
Widowed | 1.3 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 7.1 | 4.6 | 16.9 | 14.5 | 9.0 | |
Separated/divorced | 4.3 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 5.1 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 8.2 | 6.7 | 5.9 | |
Main language (%) | Italian | 88.6 | 23.1 | 43.7 | 3.1 | 91.3 | 28.4 | 49.2 | 3.8 | 8.4 |
Preponderant regional language | 11.4 | 77.0 | 56.4 | 96.9 | 8.7 | 71.6 | 50.8 | 96.2 | 91.6 | |