Table 1

Table 1: Estimation of the excess of male mortality controlled by year and age.

Ages	Period
	1921-29	1930-39	1940-49	1950-59	1960-69	1970-79	1980-89	1990-97
0	1.32	1.30	1.27	1.28	1.28	1.28	1.27	1.23
1-9	1.12	1.17	1.22	1.31	1.34	1.34	1.30	1.24
10-19	1.06	1.11	1.37	1.91	2.15	2.40	2.43	2.13
20-29	0.91	0.95	1.19	2.03	2.69	2.92	2.98	2.86
30-39	0.84	0.90	1.07	1.49	1.75	1.82	2.00	2.25
40-49	0.98*	1.07	1.25	1.49	1.72	1.81	1.68	1.70
50-59	1.11	1.17	1.35	1.69	1.91	2.00	1.89	1.70
60-69	1.11	1.18	1.34	1.58	1.86	2.05	2.01	1.86
70-79	1.10	1.13	1.21	1.33	1.55	1.79	1.88	1.81
80-89	1.05	1.09	1.11	1.18	1.26	1.43	1.56	1.57

	estimates below 1 (female mortality is higher than male)
	estimates which are greater than 1 but less than 2 (male mortality is moderately higher than female)
	estimates which are above 2 (male mortality is much higher than female)

* Not significant, p-value = 0.054 with 1 DF. All other estimates are significant at the 0.001 level.