Table 1

Distribution of the sample by characteristics recorded at death registration and at census prior to death; decedents aged 65 years and over 2001–2007 and 2011–2017, England and Wales

	2001–2007, n=30 259		2011–2017, n=31 417 (28 358 with 2011 Census data)
	%	n	%	n
Sex
M	44.92	13 593	45.54	14 308
F	55.08	16 666	54.46	17 109
Educational qualifications*
Higher secondary+	10.51	3179	25.88	8132
Lower or none	89.49	27 080	74.12	23 285
Carstairs deprivation quintile
1–2, least deprived	27.12	8161	29.50	8362
2	15.58	4714	17.18	4869
3	20.70	6265	21.53	6102
4	23.99	7258	23.06	6537
5, most deprived	27.79	8409	25.92	7347
Household type/tenure
Owner	57.00	17 245	63.97	18 136
Renter	31.18	9434	25.69	7283
Care home†	11.81	3574	10.34	2931
Limiting long-term illness
No	29.44	8909	21.30	6038
Yes	70.56	21 350	78.70	22 316
Self-rated heath
Good	21.85	6612	26.54	7526
Fair	39.18	11 855	43.25	12 264
Poor	38.97	11 792	30.21	8568
Age at death (years)
65–9	8.43	2549	3.20	1006
70–4	12.09	3658	10.50	3298
75–9	17.78	5379	15.63	4909
80–4	22.20	6715	21.00	6597
85–9	20.06	6067	23.07	7249
90–4	13.87	4195	18.37	5771
95+	5.57	1684	8.22	2583
Marital status at death
Widowed	51.11	15 464	49.87	15 669
Married	35.94	10 875	35.63	11 193
Divorced/separated	4.96	1500	7.68	2414
Never married	8.00	2420	6.81	2141
Place of death
Private home/other	17.73	5364	21.17	6650
Care home†	20.44	6186	25.89	8135
Hospital/hospice	61.83	18 709	52.94	16 632

Source: analysis of Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study.
*Those with no information (5.6% 2001–2007; 1% 2011–2017) were treated as having no qualification.
†Or other type of communal establishment.