Table 5

Attributable risks of mortality (1970–4) from different air quality variables

	TSP, 1970–74  All locations		TSP, 1960–64  All locations		TSP, 1970–74  TSP, 1960–64
	Risk	SE	Risk	SE	Risk	SE
Ages 15–44	0.0134	0.0151	0.0584*	0.0265	0.0155	0.0326
Ages 45–64	−0.0042	0.0094	0.0342*	0.0173	0.0199	0.0211
Ages 65–74	0.0116	0.0079	0.0273	0.0148	0.0151	0.0158
Ages 75–84	0.0165*	0.0062	0.0444*	0.0105	0.0450*	0.0129
Ages ≥85	0.0134	0.0076	0.0479*	0.0114	0.0415*	0.0141
Log mean	0.0084	0.0056	0.0377*	0.0106	0.0209	0.0132

	S0₄²⁻, 1970–74   All locations		S0₄²⁻, 1960–64   All locations		S0₄²⁻, 1970–74  S0₄²⁻, 1960–64
Ages 15–44	0.0162	0.0155	0.0424*	0.0135	0.0323	0.0186
Ages 45–64	0.0140	0.0091	0.0154	0.0085	0.0241*	0.0109
Ages 65–74	0.0165*	0.0078	0.0076	0.0069	0.0191*	0.0088
Ages 75–84	0.0166*	0.0057	0.0138*	0.0048	0.0234*	0.0061
Ages ≥85	0.0133*	0.0064	0.0152*	0.0049	0.0146*	0.0065
Log mean	0.0075	0.0058	0.0113*	0.0049	0.0146*	0.0062

	S0₂, 1970–74   All locations		S0₂, 1960–69   All locations		S0₂, 1970–74   S0₂, 1960–69
Ages 15–44	0.0439*	0.0127	0.2434*	0.0494	0.0998*	0.0434
Ages 45–64	0.0177*	0.0086	0.0353	0.0353	0.0153	0.0239
Ages 65–74	0.0151*	0.0077	0.0147	0.0250	0.0147	0.0165
Ages 75–84	0.0097	0.0057	0.0401*	0.0146	0.0238*	0.0101
Ages ≥85	0.0049	0.0066	0.0265	0.0175	0.0147	0.0119
Log mean	0.0159*	0.0053	0.0477*	0.0197	0.0274*	0.0135

	N0₂, 1970–74   All locations		Peak O₃, 1970–74   All locations		Peak CO, 1970–74   All locations
*p<0.05.
Ages 15–44	0.0904*	0.0270	−0.0385	0.0402	0.0553*	0.0240
Ages 45–64	−0.0210	0.0190	−0.0313	0.0252	0.0181	0.0148
Ages 65–74	−0.0296	0.0158	0.0279	0.0219	−0.0146	0.0134
Ages 75–84	−0.0258*	0.0110	0.0470*	0.0169	−0.0128	0.0098
Ages ≥85	−0.0121	0.0111	0.0153	0.0165	−0.0151	0.0093
Log-mean	−0.0008	0.0104	0.0040	0.0139	0.0038	0.0086