Unskilled manual male workers are twice as likely to die prematurely as higher professionals.
Unskilled manual male workers are eight times more likely to die as a result of accidents than higher professional men.
Unskilled manual workers are almost four times as likely to be admitted to hospital for the first time for schizophrenia than higher professional workers.
Unemployed women are more than twice as likely to give birth to low birth-weight babies as women in the higher professional socio-economic group.
People in the unskilled manual socio-economic group have worse health than professional groups for all the years, and for all the conditions that are analysed in the report.
Persons in the socio-economic group "Unknown" have consistently worse health than those in the unskilled manual socio-economic group.
The proportion of people whose socio-economic group is unknown is growing.
Premature mortality seems to be worse in medium-sized towns than in cities or in rural areas.
Data from the Perinatal Reporting System has not been published for eight years
(Inequalities in Health in Ireland - Hard Facts)