Question

By Economic Status and Sex
Economic Status	Population Exposed to Risk			Number of Deaths			Deaths per 100 Exposed to Risk
	Male	Female	Both	Male	Female	Both	Male	Female	Both
I (high) II III (low) Unknown	172 172 504 9	132 103 208 23	304 275 712 32	111 150 419 8	6 13 107 5	117 163 526 13	65 87 83 89	5 13 51 22	39 59 74 41
Total	857	466	1323	688	131	819	80	28	62

By Economic Status and Age
Economic Status	Population Exposed to Risk			Number of Deaths			Deaths per 100 Exposed to Risk
	Adult	Child	Both	Adult	Child	Both	Adult	Child	Both
I and II III (low) Unknown	560 645 32	19 67 0	579 712 32	280 477 13	0 49 0	280 526 13	50 74 41	0 73 -	48 74 41
Total	1237	86	1323	770	49	819	62	57	62

Refer to the data tables above and answer the following questions. Be sure to support your answers (e.g. provide probabilities, ratios, etc.).

Is there a difference in the probability of death for males vs. females?

Does age make a difference in the probability of death?

What does the number of children in relation to the number of adults tell you about this population?

Does economic status make a difference in the probability of death? Does your answer to this question differ depending on the subgroup you are looking at?

What other questions would you like to ask about these data or this event in order to help you make a determination? Can you guess what event generated this data?

Answer 1

1) Probability of death for males = 80%

Probability of death for females = 28%

The probability of death for males is 52% more when compared to females .

2) As per the data given , it is not possible to say if age makes a difference in the probability of death.

3) The number of child population exposed to risk is 86 and when compared to adults the population of adults exposed to risk is 1237. The number of child deaths is 49 and the number of adult deaths is 770. The number of children in relation to the number of adults tell us that the number of child population exposed to risk and the number of child deaths is less when compared to adults .

4) Economic status makes a difference in the probability of death because the 1st and 2nd category of population exposed to risk and the number of deaths in the 1st and 2nd category is less when comapred to the 3rd category . The 1st and 2nd category have a higher economic status when compared to the third category .

5) This data is generated from the adult and child mortality rate .