What Is the Relationship Between Age-Specific Mortality and Age-Specific Survivorship

question 31

Multiple Choice

What is the relationship between age-specific mortality and age-specific survivorship?

• A)age-specific mortality is the proportion of individuals alive at the start of an age interval; age-specific survivorship is the proportion that die before the start of the next interval
• B)age-specific survivorship is the proportion of individuals alive at the start of an age interval that die during the age interval; age-specific mortality is the proportion that survive until the start of the next interval
• C)the sum of age-specific mortality and age-specific survivorship always equals 1
• D)age-specific survivorship is always greater than 1

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