MODELLING MORTALITY USING LIFE TRAJECTORIES OF DISABLED AND NON-DISABLED INDIVIDUALS IN 19TH-CENTURY SWEDEN

Erling Häggström Lundevaller, Lotta Vikström, Helena Haage

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate how disabilities and the experiences of work and family during early adulthood affects subsequent mortality in a historical population. To achieve this aim we combine sequence analysis with event history analyses using digitized parish registers from past Sweden. Previous research including our own studies suggest that disability increased the death risks but little is known about whether there are significant associations between these risks and specific life sequences during young adulthood. Our findings are based on a 19th-century population of both disabled and non-disabled people in the Sundsvall region, Sweden