Sex Differentials in Mortality in the Soviet Union

Regional Differences in Length of Working Life in Comparative Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID5096718
AuthorsBarbara A Anderson (0000-0003-2300-0954, University of Michigan), Brian D Silver (Michigan State University)
Year1986
Volume40
Issue2
Pages191-214
Publication date1986-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0032472031000142026
OpenAlexW2001183622
LanguageEN
Citations received8

In this paper we take a different approach from other authors to the study of differences between the mortality of the two sexes in the USSR. First, we use measures of mortality that are not sensitive to the most common types of error in data and that reflect experience in an age range that is important from a policy perspective: the working ages. Secondly, we measure variation in mortality between regions of the USSR. Thirdly, we compare these regional mortality trends with experience in 33 developed countries. The sex differential in mortality in the USSR is an amalgam of very different regional patterns. Its size and rate of change are more extreme in the USSR than in other countries, and are mainly due to the poor and rapidly worsening mortality of men in the Russian Republic. But the widening sex differentials and increasing mortality of men in the older working ages in Soviet regions are similar to trends in many other developed countries

Demographic economics · Developed country · Economics · Geography · Mortality rate · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Population · Sociology · Soviet union · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

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