In many poor and not well-organized societies today,
a. statistical accuracy concerning death rates must give way to imprecise estimates
b. a fund of accurate demographic statistics is not available
c. demographic statistics derive from birth, death, and census records
d. all of these
e. none of these
Question 2
Death rates
a. can only be determined accurately when a society keeps adequate birth and death rates
b. are equivalent to the total number of deaths in a society
c. cannot easily be determined on any basis other than gender
d. by themselves can provide a good picture of the numbers of aged people in a society
e. none of these
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