Cause of death by highest Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) qualification at school leaving (rates per 100 000 person years at risk)
| Number of events | No passes at level 3 or better | SCQF level 3 | SCQF level 4 | SCQF level 5 | SCQF level 6 | SCQF level 7† | Total | |
| Deaths | ||||||||
| All deaths | 453** | 161 | 187 | 68 | 36 | 27 | 23 | 47 |
| Accidents and assault | 186** | 35 | 84 | 32 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 19 |
| Suicide (undetermined and self harm) | 120** | 40 | 48 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 12 | |
| Other‡ | 147** | 87 | 55 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 15 |
Univariate Poisson regression was used to test for trend in each of the health outcomes by attainment.
*ptrend <0.05
**ptrend <0.001
†Merged with SCQF 6 as n<10
‡Includes deaths with ICD-10 codes other than for accident, assault or suicide.
ICD-10 codes for outcomes presented in the table are as follows: accidents V01–X59, Y85, Y86 and assault X85–Y09; suicide (undetermined and self-harm) X60–X84, Y10–Y34, Y870 Y872.