Summary of request
The statistical links between occupations and causes of death in England and Wales during the period 2001 to 2010 have been investigated by Southampton University. The measure used in the analysis was the proportional mortality ratio (PMR). This measures the proportion of deaths occurring from a given cause for a particular occupation relative to the proportion of deaths from that cause in the whole population. A PMR of greater than 100 for a combination of occupation and cause of death shows that the proportion of all deaths to people formerly in that occupation arising from that cause is greater than the proportion of all deaths in all occupations combined, attributed to that cause of death.