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Table 2 All-cause mortality rate ratios (MRR): interaction terms between educational level and period by region and sex (reference category = higher education)

From: Educational inequalities in young-adult mortality between the 1990s and the 2000s: regional differences in Belgium

  

FR

BCR

WR

  

MRR

sign.

MRR

sign.

MRR

sign.

MEN

Higher sec 91

1.69

 

1.62

 

1.54

 
 

Higher sec 01

2.09

*

1.96

 

2.17

**

 

Lower sec 91

1.95

 

2.04

 

1.91

 
 

Lower sec 01

3.01

***

2.53

 

2.93

**

 

Primary 91

2.83

 

2.28

 

2.87

 
 

Primary 01

3.97

*

3.10

 

3.67

 

WOMEN

Higher sec 91

1.28

 

1.93

 

1.06

 
 

Higher sec 01

1.50

 

1.18

 

1.53

*

 

Lower sec 91

1.56

 

2.20

 

1.30

 
 

Lower sec 01

2.17

*

0.99

*

1.73

 
 

Primary 91

1.87

 

2.37

 

1.86

 
 

Primary 01

3.67

***

2.35

 

2.68

 
  1. Combined dataset of census 1991 and 2001, own calculations.
  2. FR = Flemish Region, BCR = Brussels-Capital Region, WR = Walloon Region.
  3. Sign. = Statistical significant difference between period 1991–1995 and 2001–2005.
  4. *: p < 0.050; **: p < 0.010; ***: p < 0.001.
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