Abstract

PELAEZ, Enrique  and  ACOSTA, Laura. Education and differential mortality of adults: Province of Cordoba, Argentine Republic. Pap. poblac [online]. 2011, vol.17, n.70, pp.9-31. ISSN 2448-7147.

The present work performs an analysis of the educational situation and its relation with the differenced mortality of the province of Cordoba, Argentina. The distribution of adult population is studied by literacy, age and sex; later, the same analysis is carried out for the highest schooling level attained, being found that young generations have better schooling level than the previous. In a second phase, we carried out a longitudinal analysis of the 50-60 years of age cohort from the 1980 census by instruction level, and tracing it through the 1991 and 2001 censuses. It is detected that the proportion of adults with higher schooling increases, while the proportion of less instructed decreases; this indicates a differential mortality by educational level. This is verified when calculating life expectancy at the 25 differential years by instruction and sex, using information from vital statistics.

Keywords : population; education; health; adults.