Which of the following is a measure of morbidity? MCQ with Answer and Explanation

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Which of the following is a measure of morbidity?

A. Infant mortality rate

B. Incidence rate of a disease

C. Crude death rate

D. Life expectancy

Answer: Option B

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Morbidity measures illness or disease frequency, not mortality.

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Crude birth rate is crude because:

A. It does not account for age-sex composition of the population

B. It is based on sample

C. It is always wrong

D. It uses only male births

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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
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An ogive is a graph of:

A. Frequency against lower limits

B. Cumulative frequency against lower class boundaries

C. Frequency vs class midpoints

D. Cumulative frequency against upper class boundaries

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Correct Answer: Option D

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A 'less than' ogive plots cumulative frequency against the upper class boundaries.

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For any two events A and B, P(A∪B) is:

A. Both A and B

B. Always ≤ P(A) + P(B)

C. Always ≥ P(A∩B)

D. Always ≤ 1

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Correct Answer: Option A

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By the addition rule, P(A∪B) ≤ P(A)+P(B), and probability of any event is ≤1.

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