Using the method first presented by Sullivan, the article presents results on health expectancy by level of education and gender in the late 1980s in Finland. The life tables by level of education cover the years 1986-1990. Indicators of disability and poor health were based on three variables...

The opportunities for research of socio-economic differences in mortality are best in countries where a sytem of personal identification numbers makes the computerised linkage of census and death records possible. The first part of this study is an example of the use of such linked records. It...