FOI reference: FOI-2025-3159
You asked
The life expectancy broken down by gender of people in the group:
National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC) Class 1
I would also like to know the life expectancy of the following occupations and specifically broken down by gender.
2211 Generalist medical practitioners
2212 Specialist medical practitioners
2221 Physiotherapists
2222 Occupational therapists
2223 Speech and language therapists
2224 Psychotherapists and cognitive behaviour therapists
2225 Clinical psychologists
2226 Other psychologists
2229 Therapy professionals n.e.c.
2231 Midwifery nurses
2232 Registered community nurses
2233 Registered specialist nurses
2234 Registered nurse practitioners
2235 Registered mental health nurses
2236 Registered children's nurses
2237 Other registered nursing professionals
2240 Veterinarians
2251 Pharmacists
2252 Optometrists
2253 Dental practitioners
2254 Medical radiographers
2255 Paramedics
2256 Podiatrists
2259 Other health professionals n.e.c.
We said
Thank you for your request.
Male and female life expectancy by National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification (NS-SEC) Class 1 and other classes in England and Wales has been published here: Trend in life expectancy by National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics. It includes estimates for life expectancy at birth and other ages for 5-year periods between 1982 to 1986 and 2012 to 2016.
In England and Wales in 2012 to 2016, life expectancy at birth in NS-SEC Class 1 was 83.58 years for males (95% confidence interval 83.08 – 84.08 years) and 85.47 years for females (95% confidence interval 84.84 – 86.11 years).
We are currently scoping an update to this publication.
Data showing life expectancy by occupation is not held. This information would need to be created involving complex statistical processing requiring specialist expertise to determine appropriate methodologies. As this would constitute the creation of new information, the information is not held for FOI purposes.