While it was typical for a Northern worker to have less than a high school education in 1940 (see Table 2), the proportional changes in immigration were larger in more-educated skill groups, reflecting increasing educational attainment over time.
Increasing educational attainment requires appropriately resourced education support beginning in early childhood, sustained throughout regular schooling and into vocational and higher education settings.
By far, the highest degree of physical inactivity was reported in women (93%) and men (63%) who had not completed formal education and declines with increasing educational level.
Risk of abdominal obesity increased with increasing educational status for both sexes, while higher education was found to be a significant risk factor among women only.
This may reflect the growing share of immigrants with high education in manufacturing employment, but also the increasing educational attainment of the non-immigrant workforce.
The result supports our hypothesis: not even one of the world's most egalitarian comprehensive school systems offering uniform basic education for the whole population could prevent increasing educational inequalities in mental health outcomes in a changing political and economic context.
Increasing educational level (based on German school system): 1 = secondary education (Hauptschule), 2 = secondary education (junior high; Realschule), 3 = high school education (Gymnasium).
Demographic information is provided in Table 1. 1 Increasing educational level (based on German school system): 1 = secondary education (Hauptschule), 2 = secondary education (junior high; Realschule), 3 = high school education (Gymnasium).
24 This fall has been greater among those with tertiary education compared with people with lower education, and has been one of the main drivers of increasing educational inequalities in mortality.
The report also looked at the effects of women's increasing educational attainment on their childbearing.
Increasing educational levels and the information revolution have contributed to creating a generation of women determined to gain more control over their lives, rights advocates say.
