Abstract
In the 1989 census, the population of Ukraine included 22% ethnic Russians, which prompted us to ask: is this strong Russian presence in Ukraine a reason for the relatively small difference observed between Ukraine and Russia in age-specific patterns of mortality?
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Since 1995 in Ukraine and since 2002 in Russia, ethnicity has no longer been shown in new passports.
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The situation in Russia is somewhat different, because of the low number of Ukrainians and the presence of other nationalities with very different socio-cultural profiles: for Russians living in Russia, the proportion is 31%, slightly above the national average.
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Shkolnikov, V. M., Leon, D., Adamets, S., Andreev, E., & Deev, A. (1998). Educational level and adult mortality in Russia: An analysis of routine data, 1979 to 1994. Social Science and Medicine, 47(3), 357–369.
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Shkolnikov, V. (2012). Ukrainians and Russians in Ukraine and in Russia. In: Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine. Demographic Research Monographs. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2433-4_6
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