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Mortality Differentials by Marital Status: An International Comparison.
- Source :
- Demography (Springer Nature); May1990, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p233-250, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 1990
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Abstract
- Although the greater longevity of married people as compared with unmarried persons has been demonstrated repeatedly, there have been very few studies of a comparative nature. We use log-linear rate models to analyze marital-status-specific death rates for a large number of developed countries. The results indicate that divorced persons, especially divorced men, have the highest death rates among the unmarried groups of the respective genders; the excess mortality of unmarried persons relative to the married has been generally increasing over the past two to three decades; and divorced and widowed persons in their twenties and thirties have particularly high risks of dying, relative to married persons of the same age. In addition, the analysis suggests that a selection process is operating with regard to single and divorced persons: the smaller the proportion of persons who never marry or who are divorced, the higher the resulting death rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DIVORCED people
MARRIED people
MARITAL status
MARRIAGE
MIDDLE age
DEVELOPED countries
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00703370
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Demography (Springer Nature)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 15851506
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2061451