"Age-adjusted death rates are useful when comparing different populations because they remove the potential bias that can occur when the populations being compared have different age structures. The National Center for Health Statistics uses the direct method of standardization; see the Technical Notes of “Deaths: Final Data for 2022” (4) for more information."
It's a statistical technique that attempts to control for the potential confounding impact that age differences between groups might have on the health outcome that is being compared.
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Very interesting information as usual.
Can you explain what age adjusted death rate (title of figure 4) means?
I seem to fail to understand what it is and how it relates to the table below.
Thanks.
Here is a quote from the report:
"Age-adjusted death rates are useful when comparing different populations because they remove the potential bias that can occur when the populations being compared have different age structures. The National Center for Health Statistics uses the direct method of standardization; see the Technical Notes of “Deaths: Final Data for 2022” (4) for more information."
It's a statistical technique that attempts to control for the potential confounding impact that age differences between groups might have on the health outcome that is being compared.
Thanks.