§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will list in the Official Report the life expectancy rates over the past 50 years in 10-yearly
Life expectancy at age Socio-economic group 15 45 Employers in industry etc. … … … 56.2 27.5 Managers in industry etc. … … … 57.0 28.4 Professional workers—self-employed … … … 58.1 28.9 Professional workers—employees … … … 57.0 28.3 Ancillary workers and artists … … … 57.3 28.6 Foremen and supervisors, non-manual … … … 58.0 28.8 Junior non-manual workers … … … 55.7 27.2 Personal service workers … … … 53.9 26.1 Foremen and supervisors, manual … … … 57.4 28.4 Skilled manual workers … … … 55.3 26.9 Semi-skilled manual workers … … … 55.0 27.0 Unskilled manual workers … … … 53.3 26.1 Own account workers (other than professional) … … … 57.5 28.4 Farmers—employers and managers … … … 55.7 27.8 Farmers—own account … … … 58.6 29.3 Agricultural workers … … … 55.7 27.6 Armed Forces … … … 50.4 22.0 Inadequately described occupations … … … 55.8 28.5 The differences between the socioeconomic groups reflect differences in mortality from 15 to 64 years of age and take no account of differences outside these ages. From age 65 the national age specific mortality rates are assumed for all groups.
Comparable figures for other years are not available.
Classification by socio-economic groups was introduced in 1951. A table showing numbers of men surviving from age 20 by socio-economic groups was published as an appendix to the Registrar General's Decennial Supplement, 1951, Occupational Mortality II, Volume 2.