Table 2

Age-standardised death rates (per 10 000 person-years), number of deaths and proportions of key demographic characteristics by income quintile, 35–64-year-old women in 1988–2007

	Income quintile	Rate	Deaths^*	% Basic education	% Manual workers	% Unemployed	% Outside the labour force	% Living alone
1. Period 1988–1991	1. Quintile (high)	21.6	1173	34.6	15.0	0.9	8.8	13.7
	2. Quintile	24.3	1331	48.7	29.7	1.9	12.0	13.8
	3. Quintile	28.9	1644	53.6	37.1	2.7	18.8	12.2
	4. Quintile	35.0	2158	58.5	41.8	4.1	31.7	9.1
	5. Quintile (low)	48.1	3355	67.0	43.6	5.2	52.0	18.8
2. Period 1996–1999	1. Quintile (high)	17.5	1114	23.2	12.3	4.3	10.2	15.0
	2. Quintile	19.4	1240	33.4	23.7	6.6	12.9	16.6
	3. Quintile	22.4	1494	37.5	29.7	9.8	19.8	13.6
	4. Quintile	29.2	1956	41.1	34.6	14.9	29.1	11.2
	5. Quintile (low)	47.2	2813	46.3	36.3	24.4	39.4	21.7
3. Period 2004–2007	1. Quintile (high)	12.8	963	13.4	10.2	2.7	9.6	17.6
	2. Quintile	15.8	1179	19.9	21.0	3.9	10.5	18.0
	3. Quintile	19.9	1517	23.2	27.0	5.7	15.1	13.5
	4. Quintile	28.0	2077	27.1	32.5	9.5	24.7	22.1
	5. Quintile (low)	53.8	3496	35.1	37.1	19.6	40.3	26.2

↵* The proportions and death rates are calculated using weights to account for the sampling design, whereas the number of deaths is unweighted absolute number.