Table 1

Descriptive statistics of the data from Finland by sex and own (first letter), motherʼs (second letter) and fatherʼs (third letter) ethnolinguistic affiliation, where F is for Finnish-registered and S is for Swedish-registered

	Born 1953–1999, period 1971–2017, observed from age 17						Born 1953–1974, period 1996–2017, observed from age 42
	Number of individuals	Number of person- years	Number of alcohol-related deaths by main cause only	Number of all-cause deaths	Death rate per million, alcohol-related by main cause only	Death rate per million, all-cause	Number of individuals	Number of person- years	Number of alcohol-related deaths by main cause only	Number of alcohol-related deaths by main or contributing cause	Number of all-cause deaths	Death rate per million, alcohol-related by main cause only	Death rate per million, alcohol-related by main or contributing cause	Death rate per million, all-cause
Men
FFF	1 419 616	33 244 912	10 608	68 625	0.32	2.06	662 904	7 571 206	7617	14 293	35 151	1.01	1.89	4.64
SSS	63 894	1 436 213	181	1914	0.13	1.33	31 067	359 380	141	315	1086	0.39	0.88	3.02
FFS/FSF	26 467	583 501	148	1039	0.25	1.78	11 039	119 768	98	175	525	0.82	1.46	4.38
SFS/SSF	22 438	404 476	62	514	0.15	1.27	7081	66 783	46	79	229	0.69	1.18	3.43
Women
FFF	1 358 794	31 873 160	2596	26 519	0.08	0.83	639 658	7 430 228	2033	3125	15 466	0.27	0.42	2.08
SSS	59 981	1 311 848	38	824	0.03	0.63	28 704	334 858	37	61	553	0.11	0.18	1.65
FFS/FSF	24 762	538 158	41	418	0.08	0.78	10 215	110 418	32	47	256	0.29	0.43	2.32
SFS/SSF	21 915	389 684	11	214	0.03	0.55	6980	67 490	6	13	110	0.09	0.19	1.63

Alcohol-related mortality refers to the International Classification of Diseases, Eighth revision (ICD-8) codes 291, 303, 571, 5728X, E849, E851, E860, E980, N979 and N980 for deaths from 1971 to 1986, to the ICD-9 codes 291, 303, 3050, 3317, 34570, 3457A, 3457X, 3575, 3594, 4255, 535, 571, 5771, 8609, 980, E849 and E851 for deaths from 1987 to 1995, and to the ICD-10 codes E244, F10, G312, G405, G621, G721, I426, K292, K70, K860, O354, P43, X45, T51, Y90, Y91, Z502, Z714 and Z721 for deaths from 1996 to 2017.