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The document consists of tutorial questions related to demography, covering vital ratios, standardization, life tables, and their applications. It includes calculations for standardized death rates, life table completion, probabilities of survival, and fertility rates based on given population data. The questions require analytical skills to interpret demographic data and apply statistical methods.

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Tutorial Questions

The document consists of tutorial questions related to demography, covering vital ratios, standardization, life tables, and their applications. It includes calculations for standardized death rates, life table completion, probabilities of survival, and fertility rates based on given population data. The questions require analytical skills to interpret demographic data and apply statistical methods.

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TUTORIAL QUESTIONS

1. Briefly explain any three of the vital ratios and rates popularly used in Demography.
2. Explain standardization and state its types.
3. Explain what Life Table is.
4. State the uses of life tables and the type of life table.
5. Explain the assumptions of a life table.
6. Given the table below:

ASDR(%) for standard


Age population Population A ('000) Population b ('000)

0- 4 4.37 39539 267104


5 - 14 0.45 61728 504028
15 - 24 1.02 34725 401294
25 - 44 1.76 43686 597025
45 - 64 10.44 17626 487071
65 + 68.74 3955 219238
CDR 12.5

Number of deaths for Population A = 1,291,000 and Population B = 22,487,000. Use the
available data to calculate standardized death rate for both population using indirect
method. Comment on your result
7. Given the number of survivors in the following ages in thousands

Age lx
70 35
71 27
72 21
73 17
74 15
75 13
76 12
77 10
78 8
79 7
80 7
81 6
82 5
83 4
84 0
I. Complete the life table
II. What is the probability of living to age 80 among those who reached age 72?
III. What is the number of years remaining for those who reached age 75?

8. live births in a year and the number of women of childbearing ages for a country are
below:

Age group (x) No. of Women ('000) No. live births in ('000) Lx/L0
15 – 19 410,352 56403 0.788
20 – 24 378,163 97168 0.770
25 – 29 377,011 93415 0.748
30 – 34 296,799 57694 0.723
35 – 39 235,097 34478 0.698
40 – 44 190,328 13078 0.886
45 - 49 148,534 4548 0.635
Let Lx/L0 be the proportion of women surviving from birth to the midpoint of the age interval.
From the above :
i. Construct the column for age-specific birth rates and hence compute
ii. The general fertility rate
iii. The total fertility rate
iv. The net reproduction rate
v. The gross reproduction rate if the sex ratio is 105:100

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