Author Question: If we are comparing the rate of pregnancy-related deaths among young adult women now with rates from ... (Read 139 times)

segrsyd · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

If we are comparing the rate of pregnancy-related deaths among young adult women now with rates from 50 years ago, we are most likely trying to understand the

a. age effect.
b. period effect.
c. cohort effect.
d. combined APC effect.

Question 2

Cohort flow captures the idea that

a. historical events similarly affect people of the same age.
b. people born at the same time tend to die at the same time.
c. cohort effects are more important than either period or age effects.
d. the composition of a population is determined by its pattern of birth cohorts.