Which of the following is used to compare the death rates of two different populations?
Correct Answer: Age standardized death rate
Description: If we want to compare the death rates of two populations with different age composition, the crude death rate is not a right yardstick.Age standardization removes the confounding effect of different age structures and yields a single standardized or adjusted rateref:park&;s textbook,ed23,pg 58
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