Socioeconomic inequalities in lung cancer – a time trend analysis with German health insurance data

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Characteristics of the study population aged 20–65: number of insured individuals, exposures in person-years, number of incident cases, and incidence per 100,000 by educational level, occupational group, time period, and gender

			2006–2009		2010–2013		2014–2017
			Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women
Educational level	low	no. of individuals	410,758	304,628	486,722	351,816	509,839	375,616
		person-years	1,330,153	1,014,507	1,509,178	1,117,602	1,751,062	1,291,625
		no. of incident cases	845	335	1115	524	1357	665
		incidence per 100,000	64	33	74	47	78	51
	high	no. of individuals	55,354	61,794	77,235	86,732	95,232	110,026
		person-years	174,158	200,030	227,245	261,709	303,379	355,062
		no. of incident cases	24	12	53	30	95	59
		incidence per 100,000	14	6	23	11	31	17
Occupational position	unskilled	no. of individuals	214,665	141,850	199,094	144,150	171,384	138,432
		person-years	665,237	454,168	565,614	436,411	489,151	439,820
		no. of incident cases	571	237	506	282	330	302
		incidence per 100,000	86	52	89	65	67	69
	skilled	no. of individuals	167,548	64,081	267,444	101,476	350,375	149,766
		person-years	558,088	212,315	848,694	319,632	1,158,700	492,718
		no. of incident cases	260	44	494	100	769	175
		incidence per 100,000	47	21	58	31	66	36
	specialist & highly qualified	no. of individuals	59,285	108,140	92,970	147,217	122,805	187,899
		person-years	188,233	355,075	290,067	469,682	396,893	613,502
		no. of incident cases	66	98	136	163	148	199
		incidence per 100,000	35	28	47	35	37	32

ISSN: 1471-2458