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Social class assignment and mortality in Sweden.

Robert Erikson1

  • 1Stockholm University, Sweden. robert.erikson@sofi.su.se

Social Science & Medicine (1982)
|October 27, 2005
PubMed
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Assigning spouses to the same social class based on either partner

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Area of Science:

  • Sociology
  • Public Health
  • Demography

Background:

  • Traditional family social class assignment (household head) is evolving.
  • Current methods include individual occupation or spouse's occupation.
  • These methods' validity is tested against class identification, political attitudes, and voting behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the impact of different social class assignment methods on mortality differences.
  • To investigate how spouse-based social class assignment affects observed gender disparities in mortality.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of Swedish census data from 1991-1997.
  • Comparison of mortality rate differences between social classes using various assignment approaches.

Main Results:

  • Mortality differences between social classes are larger for both men and women when spouses share a single class based on the dominance approach.
  • The dominance approach, where either spouse's labor market position defines family class, reveals greater class-based mortality variations.
  • Observed smaller class differences in women's mortality may stem from assigning class based on individual occupation rather than spouse's.

Conclusions:

  • The method of assigning social class significantly influences the measurement of class-based health disparities.
  • The dominance approach in social class assignment highlights greater mortality differences, particularly when applied to both genders.
  • Individual occupational class assignment for women may obscure true social class-related health inequalities.

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