SOCY 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mortality Rate, American Community Survey
23 May 2016
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Women in 20s most likely to give birth. Some demo event- like getting married- change individual"s demo chars. Rate= (# events within a year / # people at risk of the event) * k. Where k is a constant chosen to reduce the number of leading zeros. Interesting: crude death rate for the whole world is roughly 0. 8/100 too. Do so by adjusting for size differences between the populations or years. Census: attempt to count all the people of interest in an area. Today, we usually try to count all people. Previously maybe only men or property owners or males of ghting age. Most population gures we see are not taken from censuses or registers. Estimates: guesses of current or past population sizes. Estimates are more likely than projections to be accurate. Two houses of congress the result of big small-state compromise. Soon thereafter european countries got serious about census. Census is taken in years ending in zero.
