Table 6

Attributable risks of mortality (1979–81) from different air quality variables

	TSP, 1979–81   All locations		TSP, 1970–74   All locations		TSP, 1960–64   All locations		TSP, 1979–81   TSP, 1970–74		TSP, 1979–81   TSP, 1960–64		TSP, 1970–74   TSP, 1960–64
	Risk	SE	Risk	SE	Risk	SE	Risk	SE	Risk	SE	Risk	SE
Ages 15–44	0.0009	0.0214	0.0159	0.0150	0.0323	0.0215	0.0124	0.0232	0.0066	0.0330	0.0291	0.0257
Ages 45–64	0.0097	0.0142	0.0092	0.0101	0.0574*	0.0175	0.0015	0.0158	0.0015	0.0276	0.0342	0.0214
Ages 65–74	0.0114	0.0117	0.0240*	0.0081	0.0289*	0.0142	0.0018	0.0129	−0.0084	0.0214	0.0070	0.0170
Ages 75–84	0.0072	0.0108	0.0114	0.0074	0.0290*	0.0119	0.0054	0.0119	−0.0062	0.0180	0.0189	0.0142
Ages ≥85	0.0138	0.0106	0.0200*	0.0077	0.0368*	0.0108	0.0178	0.0119	0.0292	0.0167	0.0347*	0.0131
Log mean	0.0036	0.0085	0.0155	0.0061	0.0242*	0.0100	0.0030	0.0097			0.0104	0.0125

	Inhalable particulate network data
	PM_2.5, 1979–84   All locations		PM₁₅, 1979–84   All locations		Fine SO₄²⁻, 1979–84  All locations
Ages 15–44	0.0897	0.0568	0.0356	0.0615	0.0940*	0.0397
Ages 45–64	0.1013*	0.0459	0.0491	0.0500	0.1117*	0.0253
Ages 65–74	0.0618*	0.0297	0.0214	0.0324	0.0707*	0.0184
Ages 75–84	0.0791*	0.0235	0.0512	0.0260	0.0759*	0.0131
Ages ≥85	0.0649*	0.0228	0.0555*	0.0247	0.0492*	0.0129
Log mean	0.0515*	0.0210	0.0203	0.0241	0.0580*	0.0114

	SO₄²⁻, 1979–81  All locations		SO₄²⁻, 1970–74  All locations		SO₄²⁻,1960–64  All locations		SO₄²⁻, 1979–81  SO₄²⁻, 1970–74		SO₄²⁻, 1970–74  SO₄²⁻, 1960–64		SO₄²⁻, 1979–81  SO₄²⁻, 1960–64		SO₄²⁻, 1979–81  FineSO₄²⁻, 79–84
Ages 15–44	0.0087	0.0117	0.0194	0.0122	0.0332*	0.0105	0.0120	0.0148	0.0063	0.0173	0.0191	0.0148	0.0117	0.0333
Ages 45–64	0.0320*	0.0086	0.0234*	0.0092	0.0216*	0.0080	0.0330*	0.0109	0.0442*	0.0117	0.0322*	0.0108	0.0552*	0.0195
Ages 65–74	0.0441*	0.0067	0.0248*	0.0071	0.0095	0,0065	0.0377*	0.0082	0.0359*	0.0094	0.0235*	0.0083	0.0609*	0.0111
Ages 75–84	0.0379*	0.0058	0.0226*	0.0058	0.0162*	0.0054	0.0309*	0.0069	0.0332*	0.0081	0.0301*	0.0068	0.0491*	0.0104
Ages ≥85	0.0175*	0.0057	0.0184*	0.0057	0.0196*	0.0044	0.0155*	0.0065	0.0194*	0.0063	0.0224*	0.0059	0.0171	0.0097
Log mean	0.0189*	0.0054	0.0103	0.0056	0.0121*	0.0044	0.0130*	0.0067	0.0147*	0.0071	0.0142*	0.0062	0.0258*	0.0088

	S0₂, 1979–81  All locations		S0₂, 1970–74   All locations		S0₂, 1960–64   All locations		S0₂, 1979–81   S0₂, 1970–74		S0₂, 1979–81   S0₂, 1960–64		S0₂, 1970–74   S0₂, 1960–64
Ages 15–44	0.0210	0.0133	0.0204	0.0133	0.1778*	0.0412	0.0183	0.0177	0.1847*	0.0465	0.0911*	0.0332
Ages 45–64	0.0379*	0.0094	0.0094	0.0099	0.0034	0.0373	0.0390*	0.0123	0.0333	0.0389	−0.0037	0.0270
Ages 65–74	0.0202*	0.0086	0.0034	0.0081	0.0081	0.0223	0.0117	0.0107	0.0176	0.0233	0.0114	0.0160
Ages 75–84	0.0233*	0.0073	0.0052	0.0068	−0.0027	0.0150	0.0126	0.0093	0.0200	0.0161	0.0021	0.0099
Ages ≥85	0.0263*	0.0073	0.0236*	0.0073	0.0354	0.0198	0.0347*	0.0095	0.0484*	0.0213	0.0439*	0.0120
Log mean	0.0225*	0.0064	0.0138*	0.0061	0.0348	0.0192	0.0185*	0.0081	0.0541*	0.0198	0.0386*	0.0119

	N0₂, 1979–81  All locations		N0₂ 1970–74   All locations		N0₂, 1960–64  All locations
p<0.05.
Ages 15–44	0.0394	0.0235	0.0280	0.0309	−0.0737	0.1158
Ages 45–64	0.0186	0.0174	0.0162	0.0219	−0.0567	0.0972
Ages 65–74	−0.0198	0.0134	−0.0346*	0.0178	−0.0329	0.0481
Ages 75–84	−0.0205	0.0110	−0.0256	0.0150	0.0038	0.0310
Ages ≥85	0.0235*	0.0098	0.0037	0.0123	0.0475	0.0257
Log mean	0.0120	0.0100	−0.0117	0.0120	−0.1785*	0.0428

	Peak O₃, 1979–81  All locations		Peak O₃, 1970–74  All locations		Peak O₃, 1979–81  O₃, 1970–74
Ages 15–44	0.0207	0.0255	−0.0238	0.0367	0.0920	0.0548
Ages 45–64	−0.0068	0.0176	−0.0336	0.0250	0.0150	0.0362
Ages 65–74	0.0303*	0.0148	0.0415*	0.0206	0.0467	0.0280
Ages 75–84	0.0278*	0.0127	0.0465*	0.0187	0.0744*	0.0259
Ages ≥85	0.0128	0.0123	0.0127	0.0157	0.0218	0.0220
Log mean	0.0072	0.0108	0.0073	0.0147	0.0312	0.0204

	Peak CO, 1979–81  All locations		Peak CO, 1970–74  All locations		Peak CO, 1960–69  All locations		Peak CO, 1979–81  CO, 1970–74		Peak CO, 1979–81  CO, 1960–69		Peak CO, 1979–81  CO, 1960–69
*p<0.05.
Ages 15–44	0.0054	0.0174	0.0218	0.0200	0.0506	0.0478	0.0244	0.0209	0.0748	0.0679	0.1191	0.0709
Ages 45–64	−0.0060	0.0141	0.0327*	0.0161	0.0704*	0.0337	0.0016	0.0181	0.0844	0.0496	0.1163*	0.0491
Ages 65–74	−0.0251*	0.0105	−0.0136	0.0119	0.0100	0.0211	−0.0183	0.0128	0.0144	0.0259	0.0177	0.0310
Ages 75–84	−0.0331*	0.0086	−0.0250*	0.0105	−0.0124	0.0143	−0.0382*	0.0108	−0.0158	0.0168	−0.0120	0.0212
Ages ≥85	−0.0123	0.0079	−0.0202*	0.0085	0.0187	0.0135	−0.0201*	0.0089	−0.0073	0.0170	−0.0040	0.0202
Log mean	−0.0183*	0.0077	−0.0048	0.0077	0.0084	0.0149	−0.0165	0.0089	0.0109	0.0218	0.0211	0.0231