One group of people particularly hard hit – Dagsavisen
Statistics Denmark, which corresponds to Statistics Norway (SSB) in Norway, has now settled on who died of covid-19 in Denmark.
They have covered the period 1 March 2020 to 31 December 2021. During this period, 3,550 corona-related deaths were registered in Denmark, writes the Danish newspaper the policy.
The newspaper does not help statistics between people who have died of or with covid-19.
Statistics Denmark has looked at a number of social factors, such as connection to working life and income and education level. The findings show that attachment to working life is of great importance when it comes to who has died of covid-19.
– For the unemployed, age-adjusted mortality was about three times as high as for the employed, the newspaper writes.
For social security, pensioners and early retirees, the mortality rate was four times as high.
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– Huge social slant
The newspaper writes that during the entire pandemic they have stated that the infection and postal figures in Denmark have had an «enormous social bias», and that municipalities with a relatively high proportion of social security have had the highest figures. This is now also reflected in the death tolls on which statistics are based.
Statistics Denmark has also focused on mortality against income. Here they also see great results.
– The age-adjusted mortality rate for low-income people in the entire population is 102, while it is 60 – almost half as high, the newspaper writes.
The mortality rate shows deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
The same bias found the statistics agency when they looked at the level of education against mortality. Politiken writes that the logic seems to be that the longer education you have, the less risk there is of dying from covid.
The National Institute of Public Health (FHI) has also made reports which show the level of education and income has had some significance when it comes to who has been hardest hit during the pandemic in Norway.
I then FHI report from November 2021, the following is stated in the conclusion:
«People in the lower than of the education and income scale are overrepresented in proven cases of infection, related posts, respirator use and death. When we adjust for age, gender, municipality of residence and country of birth, the over-representation between the groups is reduced, but the patterns remain the same. Of the factors that are included, it is the country of birth that has the greatest significance in understanding differences between people with different educations and household incomes. “
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Highest mortality
The findings from Statistics Denmark also show that the mortality rate among immigrants with non-Western backgrounds is three times as high as among people of ethnic Danish origin and immigrants from western countries.
The newspaper writes that throughout the pandemic they have put people with a minority background in Denmark have been overrepresented when it comes to hospital admissions. This has also been put in place in Norway, both when it comes to infection and hospitalization.
FHI has made a separate report about this, where it is pointed out a number of reasons «which individually have given a modest increased risk, but which overall have given large biases».
According to Politiken, Statistics Denmark can now also show a trend that has been clear throughout the pandemic: Most people die. The figures from Denmark show that mortality for men is almost twice as high as for women.
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