Best method to compare vital statistics of two populations-: (A) Crude death rate, (B) Age specific death rate, (C) Age standardization death rate, (D) Multivariate moality rate
Answer is C. ref: Park&;s 23rd edition pg 58 The advantage of age standardised death rate is that it removes the confounding effect of different age structures and yields a single standardised or adjusted rate, by which moality experience can be directly compared.