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Table 1 Association between the various deprivation indices and all-cause mortality on the commune scale, by degree of urbanicity

From: Ecological association between a deprivation index and mortality in France over the period 1997 – 2001: variations with spatial scale, degree of urbanicity, age, gender and cause of death

   

Urban unit category (UUC)

  

All of France

Rural

Quasi-rural

Quasi-urban

Urban

Paris-and-suburbs

Number of spatial units

30,498

24,533

2,466

1,774

1,312

414

Population (in thousand)

59,273

14,101

7,019

11,143

17,196

9,814

 

SMR

 

1.13*

1.17*

1.13*

1.09*

1.00

FDep99

Mean

0

0.34

0.36

0.33

-0.03

-1.07

 

Q5-Q1

2.73

1.92

2.03

1.85

2.46

3.54

 

SMRQ5/SMRQ1

1.24*

1.11*

1.17*

1.20*

1.29*

1.30*

 

Adjusted SMR

 

1.01

1.04

0.99

1.00

1.00 (ref.)

Townsend

Mean

0

-2.92

-1.43

0.15

1.29

2.94

 

Q5-Q1

8.62

3.82

5.06

6.57

7.54

9.43

 

SMRQ5/SMRQ1

1.02

1.09*

1.15*

1.12*

1.13*

1.11

 

Adjusted SMR

 

1.24*

1.25*

1.16*

1.11*

1.00 (ref.)

Carstairs

Mean

0

-1.46

-0.53

0.22

0.59

1.28

 

Q5-Q1

6.73

4.59

5.05

5.63

6.98

8.32

 

SMRQ5/SMRQ1

1.12*

1.10*

1.16*

1.19*

1.25*

1.15*

 

Adjusted SMR

 

1.19*

1.21*

1.15*

1.10*

1.00 (ref.)

  1. FDep99: First component of a PCA on the commune scale of the variables: median income, % blue-collar workers, % high school graduates, and unemployment rate
  2. Townsend and Carstairs: sum of standardized variables
  3. Q5-Q1: Difference between the index average of communes whose index is higher than the fourth quintile and the index average of communes whose index is lower than the first quintile
  4. SMR: Standardized Mortality Ratio for the period, 1997–2001
  5. SMRQ5/SMRQ1: ratio of the SMR of communes whose deprivation is higher than the fourth quintile and SMR of the communes whose deprivation is lower than the first quintile
  6. Adjusted SMR: SMR of the UUC (ref. 1 for Paris-and-suburbs) adjusted with a log-linear trend for deprivation;
  7. *: the value is statistically significantly different from 1 at the 5% level