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Table 1 Sample description: total number, number of personyears and distribution by gender, age and education among natives and immigrants

From: Prospective register-based study of the impact of immigration on educational inequalities in mortality in Norway

 

1st January 1993 sample, age 20-69

1st January 2008 sample, age 20-69

 

All

Natives

Immigrants

All

Natives

Immigrants

Baseline study cohort

2,600,945

2,465,694

135,251

2,840,119

2,541,288

298,831

Row percent

100.0

94.8

5.2

100.0

89.5

10.5

Column percentages

      

Women %

49.5

49.6

47.2

49.3

49.3

48.9

Age 20–29%

24.4

24.3

26.4

18.5

17.9

23.7

Age 30–39%

23.3

22.9

31.3

22.4

21.5

30.2

Age 40–49%

22.6

22.6

22.2

22.5

22.2

24.5

Age 50–59%

15.0

15.1

12.1

20.5

21.2

14.0

Age 60–69%

14.7

15.1

8.0

16.1

17.1

7.5

Education

      

Missing %

3.2

1.3

37.8

2.7

0.7

19.9

Lower %

48.5

49.8

24.5

36.6

37.3

30.9

Medium %

27.7

28.3

16.9

30.0

31.1

20.6

Higher %

20.6

20.5

20.9

30.7

30.9

28.6

No. deaths

46,352

44,867

1,485

39,130

36,844

2,286

Personyears

10,244,727

9,743,461

501,266

11,197,343

10,072,958

1,124,385

  1. Natives = no immigrant connection; immigrants = foreign-born with foreign-born parents; others (e.g., second-generation immigrants, mixed immigrant/parents, etc. 3.2% of total 20–69 population in 1993, 4.7% in 2008) are not included in the analyses. No. (number) deaths/personyears refer to 1993–1996 and 2008–2011 respectively.