Table 3

Correlation of relative and absolute cohort changes in all cause mortality at ages 55–69 with relative and absolute cohort changes in all cause mortality at ages 80–89, for men and women born to the centralised birth cohorts 1895–1910 among seven European countries

Stratified by:	N	Correlation of mortality changes
Stratified by:	N	Relative	Absolute
†Relative change in mortality rates between the two subsequent centralised birth cohorts. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two tailed); *correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two tailed).
All	42	0.61**	0.58**
Men	21	0.71**	0.70**
Women	21	0.33	0.32
Cohort change† 1895 to 1900	14	0.74**	0.61*
Cohort change† 1900 to 1905	14	0.56*	0.64*
Cohort change† 1905 to 1910	14	0.74**	0.82**
Denmark	6	0.63	0.44
England and Wales	6	0.41	0.20
Finland	6	0.52	0.37
France	6	0.64	0.08
Netherlands	6	0.78	0.79
Norway	6	0.84*	0.76
Sweden	6	0.88*	0.54