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Determinants of Old-Age Mortality and Its Regional Variation: Composition and Context

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Having addressed the issues of how mortality varies across the districts, how it changes over time, and how it is associated with determinants that are measured at a regional level, this study now looks at the influence of the characteristics of individuals on regional mortality variation. It is clear that the associations at the regional level are partly related to the characteristics of individuals living in different areas of Germany and are partly related to the environmental contexts in these places.

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Notes

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    The last occupation of pensioners is recorded unless the pensioner has ever worked as a miner. In this case, the pensioner’s former occupation is always recorded as miner.

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    Pensions that are not paid out because the pensioners receive income. The pensions of these people are called Nullrenten.

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    This yielded the selection of eight variables: unemployment rate, GDP per capita, voter turnout, income per capita, living space, share of employees without any degree, population change, and the population forecast.

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    The reference district is the urban district of Flensburg, a district situated in Schleswig-Holstein with approximately average mortality.

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    An East-West dummy variable is not introduced here as its effect is small once explanatory variables and random intercepts for the districts are introduced (results not shown).

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    Sextiles were chosen as the division of districts into quartiles or quintiles would mainly leave eastern Germany in one quantile; such an artifact should be avoided.

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