Educational inequalities in mortality by cause of death

Objectives Using new facilities for linking large dat- abases, we aimed to evaluate for the first time the magnitude of relative and absolute educational inequalities in mortality by sex and cause of death in the Netherlands. Methods We analyzed data from Dutch Labour Force Surveys (1998–2002) with mortality follow-up 1998–2007 among people aged 30–79 years. We calculated hazard ratios using Cox proportional hazards model, age-stan- dardized mortality rates and partial life expectancy by education. We compared results for the Netherlands with those for other Europea