SOCI 324 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide -
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More after birth, up until 5, drops, then it climbs again up through life (j-shape) Crude: events/1000 people crude death rate 8. 2 deaths. Refined: events /1000 people age x age-specific death rate 0. 68 deaths. Complicated how gendering works - men more likely to diseases, work, military, accidents. Cause-specific death rates (most heart disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory, accidents, etc) Refined: events/1000 people at risk general fertility rate (women age 15-44) 66. Age specific events/1000 people age x age specific fertility rates (15-19) Median age at first event median age at first birth. Median age at any event median age at birth. *assumes heterosexual p-v sexual exposure to men also able to have intercourse. Changes in timing of when people having a child. People are tied to one another (parents/children) little/ younger adult stage. Death rate decreases, then slow birth rate decreases. Low death rate/high birth rates = dramatic growth population.
