Exam 3 Soci 312
The age at which the average human has the highest risk of death is
0
The crude death rate is the number of deaths in a population in a given year per _____ members of the population.
1000
The oldest verified age at which a human has ever lived is just over
120 (its 122 btw)
The age at which the average human has the lowest risk of death is
15
Demographers define "family partnering" as
Any couple, either same sex or opposite sex, who live together as a married or cohabiting couple
When studying the death rates patterns of a population, why do demographers usually use age specific death rates instead of the crude death rate in their research?
Because death rates vary considerably by age
Why should we NOT think of life expectancy at birth as a modal age at death?
Because high infant mortality rates can cause life expectancy at birth to be low.
The most common method of contraception used by married or in-union women in the world is
Female sterilization
Demographers use the concept of ____ to refer to the first living arrangement an adult has with another adult that involves commitment, romance and emotion.
First Union (think REC)
If you live in the United States and are a(n) ________ female, on average you will live longer than anyone else. OR Which of following statements about the mortality of the U.S. population is true? OR On average, which of these groups live longer than anyone else in the United States?
Hispanic OR Hispanic females have the highest life expectancy (so when you see mortality, population, US THINK HISPANIC FEMALES)
Which of the following are "modern" methods of birth control?
IUD, contraception injection, sterilization, diaphragm
Considering use effectiveness, among the following options, methods of family planning with LOWEST percentages of women experiencing unintended pregnancy are
IUD, female sterilization, male sterilization
A life table can be interpreted as the experience of a synthetic cohort or as a stationary population. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
In the stationary population approach, nLx is the number of person-years that would be lived within the indicated age interval by the cohort of births assumed at the radix of the table
Who is the father of epidemiology, as reported by Dudley Poston in the Population and Society textbook?
John Snow
In relation to maternal mortality, which of the following is the correct statement?
Maternal deaths are mostly due to age, parity, and birth spacing
Which of following statements about the mortality of the U.S. population is correct?
Non-Hispanic black males have the lowest life expectancy.
How hormonal contraceptives are administered?
Orally, transdermally, via injection, subdermal , (all of the above)
In the Population and Society text, Dudley Poston notes that persons who practice the rhythm method are often referred to as ____.
Parents
What is the least effective fertility awareness method?
Periodic abstinence
From 1900 to 1950, most imProvements in mortality in the United States were related to the following measures, except
Prevention and control of chronic diseases
Which is the process that describes the pattern that would exist if everyone survived to age 100 and then died shortly after that?
Rectangularization of mortality
Abortions became legal in the United States in 1973 with which Supreme Court decision?
Roe v. Wade.
The hypotheses to explain the "Hispanic Paradox" include data artifacts, migration effects, and cultural effects. These possible explanations include the following, except
Salmon bias: Mexican Americans in good health return to Mexico at old ages
What are the three principal dimensions of sexuality? OR Which statement below best describes the conceptualization of human sexuality from the vantage point of the social sciences?
Self- identification, sexual preference, sexual behavior
In the Population and Society textbook, it is noted that there are two main approaches for studying human sexuality. What are these two?
Social Constructionism and Essentialism
The following statements describe current patterns of the use of contraception in the world, EXCEPT
Sub-Saharan African countries have the highest percentages of married women using modern family planning methods
Which of the following historical events is not an example of an epidemic or pandemic disease?
Syphilis
Concerning death of children before reaching one year of age, which of the following is the incorrect statement?
The main causes of neonatal and postneonatal deaths are endogenous conditions
Choose one of the statements below that best describes cohabitation and its patterns these days in the U.S.
The more education a woman has, the LESS she will have ever cohabited
The following measures are included in a life table, except OR Which of the following is NOT included in a life table?
The number of births for women at age x (when x = 15 to 49)
What is the main similarity between the procedures of standardizing death rates and estimating life tables?
They consider differences in age structure for different years, areas, or sub-groups of the population
The following are definitions of cohabitation, EXCEPT
When two or more people are roommates but not romantically involved
In the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), how do the interviewers gather data on the sexuality of the respondents?
With the aid of ACASI where the respondent has privacy in hearing and answering the questions
Which international organization defines an unsafe abortion as "a procedure for terminating a pregnancy that is performed by an individual lacking the necessary skills, or in an environment that does not conform to minimal medical standards, or both?"
World Health Organization
The following statistical concepts are directly used to calculate life expectancy, except OR Of the following statistical concepts, the _______ is NOT directly used to calculate life expectancy.
age-adjusted death rate
The following statements describe contraception behavior among U.S. women aged 15-44 in 2006-2010, except
among cohabiting and never married women, the most popular method is male condom
The following statements describe abortion trends in the United States, except
around 10% of abortions are performed in the 21st or later week of pregnancy.
In its broadest terms, the decline in mortality over the past 200 years has been due primarily to
control over the environment.
The racial mortality crossover means that
death rates for blacks become lower than those for whites at older ages
Which of the following symbols is the life table symbol for life expectancy at birth?
e0
The following statements describe the trends of age at first marriage in the United States, EXCEPT
gender differentials of median age at first marriage have been increasing over time.
Throughout most of HUMAN HISTORY, the major causes of death have been related to
infectious diseases
The "Hispanic Paradox" refers to the phenomenon of
lower death rates for Hispanics than non-Hispanics in the United States
Homosexuality is ____ than heterosexuality
more fluid (OR less socially accepted now)
In the United States, between 1980 and 2015, interracial marriage rates had steeper increases among
non-Hispanic African Americans.
In the United States by 2015, interracial marriage rates are higher for
non-Hispanic Asians.
In a low-mortality society such as the United States, the principal causes of death are related to
noncommunicable conditions.
The following statements describe the trends of marital status in the United States between 1950 and 2014, EXCEPT
percentage of never married women with at least 15 years of age declined in the period
In 2006-2010, the most popular methods of contraception among U.S. women aged 15-44 were
pill, female sterilization, male condom, male sterilization
One of the first persons to write about the male condom was Gabriele Falloppio in 1564 in his writings dealing with ___.
syphilis
In a life table with l0=100,000; l30=98,429; l70=82,012; and T0=8,103,588, it is correct to affirm that
the crude birth rate equals 100,000 divided by 8,103,588.
Which of the following is not included in a life table?
the number of births for women at age x (when x = 15 to 49)
In relation to period life tables, it is correct to affirm that
the number of people dying during the age interval equals the probability of death times the number of people alive at beginning of the age interval. AND the probability of surviving from birth to age x is designated px = lx / l0.
The following statements describe some trends of induced abortion between 1995 and 2008, except
the percentage of unsafe abortions DECREASED in the period & the number of abortions INCREASED in the world
The following statements describe the trends of babies born to unmarried mothers in the United States, EXCEPT
the younger the woman, the more likely she is married when she gives birth.
The most important "real" causes of death in the United States are related to
tobacco use
One of the oldest know contraceptive methods is ____.
withdrawal
Among the categories of nonusers of contraception, the one that policymakers are usually concerned with is the following
women not using contraception and engaging in unprotected intercourse.
