Table 3

Odds ratios of cause specific mortality by sub-region income inequality for 1.4 million New Zealand 1991 census respondents aged 25–64 years followed up for mortality for three years

	Men			Women
Income inequality (either quartiles or per 0.01 Change in continuous Gini)	Deaths	Observed OR (95% CI)	Linkage adj OR	Deaths	Observed OR (95% CI)	Linkage adj OR
Cancer, quartiles
Low	369	1	1	408	1	1
Med-low	675	1.07 (0.93 to 1.24)	1.11	696	0.94 (0.81 to 1.08)	0.96
Med-high	558	1.10 (0.96 to 1.27)	1.15	516	0.86 (0.75 to 0.99)	0.89
High	546	1.11 (0.96 to 1.28)	1.13	498	0.86 (0.74 to 0.99)	0.95
Cancer, continuous Gini
0.01 increase in Gini		1.007 (0.979 to 1.037)			0.981 (0.952 to 6.011)

CVD, quartile
Low	483	1	1	192	1	1
Med-low	732	0.91 (0.80 to 1.04)	0.91	282	0.90 (0.73 to 1.11)	0.94
Med-high	648	0.92 (0.81 to 1.04)	0.90	246	0.84 (0.69 to 1.03)	0.92
High	636	0.92 (0.81 to 1.05)	0.93	285	0.94 (0.77 to 1.16)	1.01
CVD, continuous Gini
0.01 increase in Gini		0.998 (0.972 to 1.026)			1.029 (0.986 to 6.073)

Injury
Low	69	1	1	21	1	1
Med-low	114	1.03 (0.73 to 1.46)	1.05	45	1.46 (0.81 to 2.62)	1.44
Med-high	117	1.29 (0.94 to 1.78)	1.35	45	1.98 (1.15 to 3.40)	1.96
High	93	0.99 (0.70 to 1.38)	1.13	36	1.63 (0.91 to 2.92)	1.69
Injury, continuous Gini
0.01 increase in Gini		0.958 (0.892 to 1.030)			1.068 (0.952 to 1.198)

Suicide
Low	63	1	1	15	1	1
Med-low	87	0.77 (0.53 to 1.12)	0.86	33	1.70 (0.82 to 3.53)	1.68
Med-high	66	0.79 (0.54 to 1.13)	0.90	21	1.41 (0.69 to 2.88)	1.40
High	78	0.97 (0.67 to 1.40)	0.98	27	1.97 (0.96 to 4.02)	1.97
Suicide, continuous Gini
0.01 increase in Gini		1.021 (0.945 to 1.102)			1.087 (0.957 to 1.234)