There are a myriad of possible reasons for this, the more convincing ones linked to educational trends as reported by UNESCO: women now outnumber men in worldwide university enrollments and graduation rates.
Educationalist Alfie Kohn coined the acronym BGUTI -- for "Better Get Used to It" -- to describe the current educational trend towards testing children all the time and making those tests ever harder.
Here is an educational trend.
The captions for figures 2-4 shaved have made it clear that the trends were for educational inequalities in mortality (not inequalities in education).
However, after adjustment for smoking history the inverse association remained significant only for educational status (P for trend <0.05).
While participation in training courses may be expected to increase during recessions, our descriptive data show a fairly constant trend for educational level in the overall adult population.
Recognizing this trend, the Bund-Länder Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion ( BLK) launched Germany's first comprehensive Web site on E-learning opportunities in July 2000.
Terms for the fixed effects included the intercept, baseline diabetes, age, age (in order to control for nonlinear trends), sex, educational level, baseline history of smoking, baseline alcohol intake, hypertension, history of cardiovascular disease, BMI, depression score, type 2 diabetes, time (F1, F2), as well as the interaction terms between F1 and diabetes and F2 and diabetes.
Income was also used as a measure of socio-economic status, showing trends similar to those observed for educational level.
For educational level and income level, we found significant trends (p values =0.01 and 0.04, respectively), while for labour market attachment, there was no clear trend (p value =0.50).
