A Better Divorce Rate Measure That Compares How Many Divorces

question 47

Multiple Choice

A better divorce rate measure that compares how many divorces occurred in a given year relative to the number of married people in that year is the

• A) crude divorce rate.
• B) refined divorce rate.
• C) federal divorce rate.
• D) divorce-marriage ratio.

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