Life expectancy of elderly in Russia depending on educational status
Russia is currently experiencing an increase in the proportion of the population belonging to senior age cohorts. This process is paralleled by changes in the educational structure, as comparatively more educated groups enter senior ages. In this paper we analyze the differences in mortality and life expectancy depending on the level of education for Russians aged 50 and older. We estimate life tables for people at these ages. Our estimates are based on the RLMS-HSE longitudinal survey for the period from 1994 to 2015. We take into account all the waves of the survey from the 5th to the 24th. Life tables are estimated separately for men and women. Apart from general life tables for each sex, we also estimate life tables for people with low educational status and high educational status (also segregated by sex). People with 10 years or less of education are considered to have low educational status, while those with more than 10 years of education are regarded as having high educational status. Our calculations reveal that at the age of 50, men with high educational status have life expectancy values 3 years higher than their counterparts with low educational status. As for women, at the same age of 50, those with high educational status have life expectancy values 4.4 years higher than their counterparts with low educational status. Our results reveal that a remarkable difference still persists in life expectancy values depending on the highest level of education achieved.