7 (a) The table below relates to area A in 1998.

Age Population Number Death rate Standard

group of deaths per 1000 Population

0 – 21 3000 45 P 4000

22 – 49 2500 Q 8 3500

50 and over R 40 20 2500

(i) Calculate each of the numbers represented by the letters P, Q and R. [3]

(ii) Calculate the crude death rate of area A. [2]

(iii) Calculate the standardized death rate of area A. [3]

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Section B [64 marks]

Answer not more than four of the questions 7 to 11.

Each question in this section carries 16 marks.

7 In this question calculate all death rates per thousand, and to 2 decimal places.

The first table below gives certain information about the population and deaths in town A for the
year 2004, together with the standard population of the area in which town A is situated.

Age group Deaths Population in Standard

age group population (%)

0 – 19 16 3500 25

20 – 39 x 6000 30

40 – 59 38 5000 25

60 and over 77 6000 20

(i) The death rate for the 20 – 39 age group is 2.50 per thousand. Show that x = 15. [1]

(ii) Calculate the crude death rate for town A. [4]

(iii) Calculate the death rates for the other three age groups. [2]

(iv) Using the given rate for the 20 – 39 age group, and the rates you have calculated in (iii),
calculate the standardised death rate for town A. [4]

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6 The table below gives, by category of employment in the year 2007, the number of employees,
and the number of accidents they suffered, at a particular factory. It also shows the standard
population for the whole industry of which the factory is part.

Category of Number of Number of Standard

employment accidents employees population (%)
Management 3 20 4

Technical 9 75 17

Skilled 18 230 41

Unskilled 25 115 38

Total 55 440 100

(i) Calculate the crude accident rate per thousand for the factory.

............................................................[3]

(ii) Showing your full working for at least one of the categories, calculate the standardised
accident rate per thousand for the factory.

............................................................[5]

(iii) Explain briefly why the answers you have obtained to (i) and (ii) are not equal.

...................................................................................................................................................

...............................................................................................................................................[1]

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9 (a) For summarising its census data, a country divides its population into three age groups, 0
to 10 years, 11 to 30 years, and 31 years and older. The marriage rates for the three groups
at the last census were mistakenly published in the wrong order as 12 per thousand, 5 per
thousand and 0 per thousand.

State, with a reason in each case, which marriage rate relates to

(i) the ‘0 to 10’ group,

...........................................................................................................................................

.......................................................................................................................................[1]

(ii) the ‘11 to 30’ group,

...........................................................................................................................................

.......................................................................................................................................[1]

(iii) the ‘31 and over’ group.

...........................................................................................................................................

.......................................................................................................................................[1]

(b) The table below gives information about two neighbouring towns, A and B, together with the
standard population for the area in which the towns are situated.

Town A
Standard Town B
Age group Number of Death rate
population Population population
deaths (per thousand)
00 – 24 3500 3000 45 P 2500
25 – 49 3000 2500 Q 8 1500
50 and over 2500 R 30 20 3000

For Town A, calculate

(i) the values of P, Q and R,

P = ......................................................

Q = ......................................................

R = ..................................................[3]

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Section B [64 marks] For

Examiner’s
Answer not more than four of the questions 7 to 11. Use

Each question in this section carries 16 marks.

7 In this question the fertility rate of a population is defined as the number of births per
females.

The table below gives information about the female population and age group fertility rates in
a particular city for the year 2012, together with the standard population of the area in which
the city is situated.

Age group of Population of Age group Standard population

Births
females females in age group fertility rate of females (%)
Under 20 2900 50 18
20 – 29 4500 184 22
30 – 39 5250 136 25
Over 39 5800 15 35

(i) Calculate, to 1 decimal place, the standardised fertility rate for the city.

................................................... [4]

(ii) Calculate the number of births for each age group and insert the values in the table
above.

[2]

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(iii) Calculate, to 1 decimal place, the crude fertility rate for the city. For
Examiner’s
Use

................................................... [4]

There are equal numbers of males and females in the city and in the standard population.
The standardised and crude death rates for the city in 2012 were 8.5 and 7.8 per thousand
of the population respectively.

(iv) Using one of these values, and any other appropriate values from parts (i), (ii) and (iii),
find the increase in the population of the city in 2012 due to births and deaths.

................................................... [5]

It is not possible to obtain an accurate measure of population increase or decrease in a city

from information on births and deaths alone.

(v) State what additional information is required.

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(ii) the crude death rate per thousand, to 2 decimal places,

....................................................[2]

(iii) the standardised death rate per thousand, to 2 decimal places.

....................................................[4]

For Town B the crude death rate is 14.0 per thousand, and the standardised death rate is 12.5
per thousand. One of these rates is larger than the corresponding rate for Town A, but the
other is smaller.

(iv) State, with a reason, which rate should be used to compare the chances of survival in
the two towns, and which town gives the better chance.

...........................................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................................

.......................................................................................................................................[3]

(v) State what causes the other rate to lead to an incorrect conclusion in this case.

...........................................................................................................................................

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The table below gives information about town B, another town in the same area, for the year 2004.
The crude death rate for town B in 2004 was 6.84 per thousand.

Age group Death rate per Population in

thousand age group (%)

0 – 19 3 32

20 – 39 2 28

40 – 59 4 24

60 and over 27 16

(v) Calculate the standardised death rate for town B in the year 2004, using the same standard
population as for town A. [2]

One of the two towns has a higher crude death rate, but the other has a higher standardised death
rate.

(vi) Give a brief explanation of why such a situation can occur. [1]

(vii) State, with a reason, which of the two towns would appear to have a healthier environment.
[2]

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