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English translation: this disparity in life expectances is found to a lesser degree

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English term or phrase:	less so
Selected answer:	this disparity in life expectances is found to a lesser degree
Entered by:	Nadia Ayoub

15:43 Sep 24, 2011

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Social Sciences - International Org/Dev/Coop / Population Situation Analysis

English term or phrase: less so

The issue of mortality differentials by sex is rather different from the preceding ones, not in least because by and large mortality differentials between men and women tend to be favourable to women. Generally speaking, female life expectancies at birth tend to be 4 to 5 years higher than male life expectancies: **less so** in high mortality populations and more so in low mortality populations.

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this disparity in life expectances is found to a lesser degree

Explanation:
Female life expectancy is higher than male normally across all populations.

In populations with a high mortality rate, the difference is less pronounced, i.e. less than 4-5 years different.

In populations with a lower mortality rate, the difference is more pronounced, i.e. greater than 4-5 years different.

But the average is 4-5 years.

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Oops - life EXPECTANCIES - sorry!

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Liz Dexter (was Broomfield)
United Kingdom

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this disparity in life expectances is found to a lesser degree

Liz Dexter (was Broomfield)

this (average) difference being smaller

luskie

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this disparity in life expectances is found to a lesser degree

Liz Dexter (was Broomfield)
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of: English
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Thank you Liz!

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this (average) difference being smaller

Explanation:
Generally speaking, female life expectancies at birth tend to be 4 to 5 years higher than male life expectancies: the average difference being smaller in high mortality populations...

the average difference is smaller or greater, but **still within the range**, as I understand it - as it reads "less so" (and not "less than so"), I don't think they're saying that it exceeds 5 or falls behind 4 (apart from some outlier, but that's a different story)

I might be wrong, of course

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-09-24 17:43:57 GMT)
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I'm also finding many examples in line with my interpretation (one is below), but I still might be wrong, and actually - from the agrees - it would seem I am...

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