"Figure 7: Women working as social care workers had a higher rate of death involving COVID-19 than women of the same age in the population, before the period of lockdown","" "Annualised age standardised rates of death involving COVID-19, deaths registered in England and Wales between 9 March 2020 and 30 June 2020 and occurred on or before 25 April 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Deaths involving the coronavirus (COVID-19) include those with an underlying cause, or any mention, of U07.1 (COVID-19, virus identified) or U07.2 (COVID-19, virus not identified). 2. Figures are for residents of England and Wales aged 20 to 64 years. 3. Occupations defined using the Standard Occupation Classification 2010 [(SOC 2010)](https://onsdigital.github.io/dp-classification-tools/standard-occupational-classification/ONS_SOC_hierarchy_view.html) 4. Figures are for deaths that occurred on or before 25 April 2020 – these are the deaths we assume to be a result of COVID-19 infection before the date of lockdown on 23 March 2020. 5. Figures are based on deaths registered between 9 March and 30 June 2020. 6. Age-standardised mortality rates are only presented for occupations with 20 or more. " "Unit","Annualised age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 women " "","" "","Annualised rate","Annualised 95% LCI","Annualised 95% UCI" "All women aged 20 to 64 years","59.8","56.6","63.0" "Social care workers","119.3","99.5","139.1" "Healthcare workers","56.2","45.1","69.1"