Occupational mortality: work or way of life?

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Abstract
For more than 100 yr the Registrar General reviewed mortality in a series of supplements relating extra information provided by decennial censuses to deaths in a period before and after the census. The volume describing occupational mortality in 1970-1972 was recently published (Registrar General, 1978). One of the questions raised by occupational mortality studies was how much does mortality of an occupation group reflect work environment and how much way of life? The traditional method of distinguishing these direct and indirect influences (i.e., the comparison of the mortality of men following an occupation with that of their wives) was described and alternative called social class standardization was introduced.

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