Demographic considerations in analyzing decedents by usual occupation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public health research uses decedents' usual industry and occupation (I&O) from US death certificates to assess mortality incidence and risk factors. Of necessity, such research may exclude decedents with insufficient I&O information, and assume death certificates reflect current (at time of death) I&O. This study explored the demographic implications of such research conditions by describing usual occupation and current employment status among decedents by demographic characteristics in a large multistate data set.

Methods

Death certificate occupations classified by Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) (ie, compensated occupation) and other categories (eg, student) for 36 507 decedents (suicide, homicide, other, undetermined intent) age 22+ years from the 2

SUBMITTER: Peterson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7354205 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature