Professionals live longer
By TJ (13-11-2007)
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The Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study, covering the period 2002-05 shows variations in life expectancy among social classes.
Although life expectancy has risen across the social classes over the last 30 years, the research shows that those in professional occupations are likely to live longest, followed by those in managerial and technical occupations. Unskilled manual workers have the shortest life expectancy.
The report gives an average life expectancy at birth for professional males of 80.0, compared with 72.7 years for those in the manual unskilled class. Females in the professional class have a life expectancy at birth of 85.1 years compared with 78.1 years for the unskilled manual class.
Taking the period of analysis as a whole, from 1972-76 to 2002-05 both males and females classified to non-manual occupationshad a greater increase in life expectancy at birth and at age 65 than those classified to manual occupations. For men, there was an increase in life expectancy at birth of 8.0 years for those classified to non-manual occupations comparedwith 6.8 years for those classified as manual. For women, these figures were 5.2 years and 4.8 years respectively.
By contrast, between 1997-2001 and 2002-05 life expectancy for males at birth and at age 65 increased more for manual than non-manual groups. For women, estimates of life expectancy increased by a similar amount for those classified to non-manual and manual occupations.
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