True or False?

____Infant mortality rates in developed countries (<5/1000 live births) are expected to drop significantly due to prevention of infectious diseases, improved nutrition and access to prenatal care

___ Crude death rates in developing countries are usually higher than crude death rates in developed countries

____ Natural increase in a population is a function ofbirths, deaths and migration

____ Crude death rate is a weighted average of age specific death rates (weights: population size in each age category)

_____ Migration contributes to reducing the size of a birth cohort in the life table

___ Epidemics with high fatality rate (AIDS, Ebola) can slow down the demographic transition in some African countries

____ Mid-year population is a good estimate of person-years lived in the age group 0 - 1 yr

_____ Age adjusted (standardized) rates are affected by age distribution and age specific rates of the population

__Crude death rates are a function of age-specific rates of a population

___ Crude death rates are a function of age distribution (age structure) of a population