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Table 1 Descriptive statistics for various immigrant characteristics^a

From: An observational study of immigrant mortality differences in Norway by reason for migration, length of stay and characteristics of sending countries

	Deaths (21429)		Person-years (7.2 mill)
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Reason for migration
Refugee	3568	16.7	1.6 mill	22.0
Family	1527	7.1	1.5 mill	20.5
Labor	846	3.9	1.2 mill	16.4
Education	81	0.4	252,181	3.5
Other	80	0.4	19,185	0.3
Nordic immigrants	7431	34.7	1.3 mill	18.6
Unknown	7896	36.8	1.4 mill	18.9
Length of stay
< 3 years	1294	6.0	1.5 mill	21.4
3–6 years	1624	7.6	1.4 mill	20.1
7–15 years	3220	15.0	1.9 mill	26.0
16–30 years	5803	27.1	1.6 mill	22.5
31–45 years	7005	32.7	604,610	8.4
> 46 years	2483	11.6	117,609	1.6
Age at immigration
Age < 3	123	0.6	52,955	0.7
Age 3–6	135	0.6	91,905	1.3
Age 7–15	604	2.8	337,066	4.7
Age 16–18	601	2.8	274,292	3.8
Age 19–30	8168	38.1	3.8 mill	53.3
Age 31–45	7859	36.7	2.1 mill	29.7
Age 46–60	2738	12.8	403,650	5.6
Age > 60	1201	5.6	61,787	0.9
Human Development Index^b
EU countries	5025	23.4	1.9 mill	26.4
Other European countries	2109	9.8	795,466	11.0
Low HDI (< 55)	1865	8.7	882,353	12.2
Medium HDI (55–74)	2365	11.0	1.4 mill	18.7
High HDI (≥ 75)	2634	12.3	941,577	13.1

^aDescriptive statistics (numbers and percentages) for deaths and person-years by immigrant characteristics. The distributions for socioeconomic covariates are shown in the Additional file 1, Table A2
^bHDI categorizations were applied to countries outside Europe, according to the United Nations’ classification. The most recent figures available were employed. The Nordic immigrants were categorized separately and are portrayed in the reason for migration category above. As such, the percentages do not add up to a 100 for this category

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