Educational inequality in adult mortality: an assessment with death certificate data from Michigan.

A study was conducted to evaluate the quality of data on education from death certificates and to examine educational differences in mortality rates. Results revealed that the relative differences in mortality rates between educational levels decline with age at the same rate for all sex and race c...

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Published in:	Demography Vol. 32; pp. 215 - 230
Main Authors:	Christenson, Bruce A., Johnson, Nan E.
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Science & Business Media B.V. May 1995
Subjects:	Educational attainment Social indicators
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost