Linked versus unlinked estimates of mortality and length of life by education and marital status: Evidence from the first record linkage study in Lithuania

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1392-1406

  Shkolnikov, Vladimir M ^a   Jasilionis, Domantas ^a   Andreev, Evgeny M ^a   Jdanov, Dmitri A ^a   Stankuniene, Vladislava ^b   Ambrozaitiene, Dalia ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Institute for Social   (Lithuania)

^c Statistics Lithuania ^*  (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Baltic countries; Differential mortality; Health; Lithuania; Socio economic inequalities

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LITHUANIA; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENSUSES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LITHUANIA; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SOCIAL CLASS;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847360003     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.11.014     Document Type: Article

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