Question

Age group	Population A (from the article)			US standard million, 2000
	Age-specific death rate per 1000	Reference Population	Expected deaths	Population	Expected deaths
0-24	1.94	11,000	21.34	353,347
25-49	5.45	17,000	92.65	370,304
50-74	41.11	20,000	822.20	216,000
75 & above	83.33	3,000	249.99	60,349
Total		51,000	1186.18	1,000,000

The table is adapted from an article that explains direct and indirect standardization (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3406211/pdf/mjms-7-1-010.pdf). Use this table to answer problems 8-10.

8. Population A is a local population and the reference population provides the population for the nation in which population A resides. The crude death rate for Population A is 17.44 per 1000. Using the data in the table for population A, calculate & report the age-adjusted rate using the expected deaths (column 4). (1 pt)

Answer 1

Age group	Population A (from the article)			US standard million, 2000
	Age-specific death rate per 1000(ASDR)	Reference Population	Expected deaths	Population	Expected deaths
0-24	1.94	11,000	21.34	353,347
25-49	5.45	17,000	92.65	370,304
50-74	41.11	20,000	822.20	216,000
75 & above	83.33	3,000	249.99	60,349
Total		51,000	1186.18	1,000,000

Total Expected deaths=685.493+2018.157+8879.76+5028.88=16612.2922

Now age adjusted death rate summation of each ASDR multiplied by the proportion of the standard population that same age group.

Now calculating age adjusted death rate using Expected deaths provided in the colomn 4

This is the age adjusted death rate per 1000 population