Les inégalités sociales dans la durée de vie la plus commune : la répartition des décès selon l'âge et le quintile de défavorisation au Québec en 2000-2002 et 2005-2007
"Social inequalities in the most common age at death : the distribution of deaths by age and deprivation quintile in Quebec in 2000-2002 and 2005-2007" We chose to focus our analysis on the social inequalities of mortality at older ages especially. The use of the modal age at death, combined with the dispersion of deaths above this age is particularly adapted to capture such disparities.  Indeed, these measures are not dependent on premature mortality. From the distribution of ages at death by level of deprivation in Quebec during the periods of 2000-2002 and 2005-2007, we determined the most common age at death and the dispersion of deaths above it. We first estimated the distribution of deaths by age and level of deprivation with a nonparametric smoothing approach based on P-splines developed by Nadine Ouellette in her doctoral thesis. Our results show that the modal age at death does not allow to detect disparities in mortality among women by level of deprivation in Quebec in 2000-2002 and in 2005-2007. Nevertheless, mortality shifted to older ages, while the compression of mortality seems to have stabilized. For men, social inequalities in mortality are particularly important between the most and least favored subgroups. There is a shift in male modal age at death towards older ages, regardless of the level of deprivation. However, unlike their female counterparts, the phenomenon of compression of mortality still seems ongoing.
deprivation modal age at death social inequalities P-spline smoothing Quebec mortality compression