NU Online News Service, June 15, 1:15 p.m. – The American Academy of Actuaries, Washington, is asking the Internal Revenue Service to approve a new mortality table from the Society of Actuaries, Schaumburg, Ill., that gives sharply higher death rates for blue-collar workers than for white-collar workers.
The Society of Actuaries RP-2000 Table shows, for example, that 65-year-old men who hold blue-collar jobs are 42% more likely to die than 65-year-old men who hold white-collar jobs.
The table shows that occupation may be even more important than sex: 65-year-old men are more likely to die than 65-year-old women, but the difference in mortality rates for men and women is only 29%, according to the society?fs table.
