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 men 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) | 49.9 | 2780 | 31.1 | 26.1 | 1.0 | 5.7 | 14.8 |
| 2. Quintile | 63.4 | 3363 | 47.1 | 49.5 | 2.0 | 10.7 | 10.4 | |
| 3. Quintile | 74.3 | 3932 | 53.0 | 56.8 | 3.1 | 17.1 | 6.9 | |
| 4. Quintile | 92.2 | 5214 | 58.7 | 58.6 | 5.0 | 26.6 | 6.7 | |
| 5. Quintile (low) | 139.4 | 8425 | 66.3 | 50.3 | 8.8 | 40.0 | 18.1 | |
| 2. Period 1996–1999 | 1. Quintile (high) | 35.3 | 2340 | 22.5 | 24.9 | 2.6 | 8.7 | 18.0 |
| 2. Quintile | 46.3 | 2882 | 34.5 | 46.0 | 5.6 | 14.3 | 12.8 | |
| 3. Quintile | 58.0 | 3544 | 39.4 | 52.6 | 9.6 | 20.6 | 9.1 | |
| 4. Quintile | 74.7 | 4610 | 44.0 | 55.2 | 16.6 | 26.6 | 10.6 | |
| 5. Quintile (low) | 126.6 | 7438 | 49.5 | 50.2 | 31.0 | 31.5 | 28.1 | |
| 3. Period 2004–2007 | 1. Quintile (high) | 26.0 | 2075 | 15.3 | 21.7 | 1.9 | 6.9 | 20.7 |
| 2. Quintile | 33.7 | 2514 | 24.3 | 45.6 | 3.8 | 10.1 | 17.5 | |
| 3. Quintile | 46.5 | 3207 | 27.8 | 51.7 | 6.4 | 15.5 | 13.2 | |
| 4. Quintile | 62.9 | 4256 | 31.9 | 54.9 | 10.6 | 23.3 | 12.3 | |
| 5. Quintile (low) | 131.6 | 8678 | 40.3 | 51.4 | 24.3 | 37.2 | 35.9 |
↵* The proportions and death rates are calculated using weights to account for the sampling design, whereas the number of deaths is unweighted absolute number.