Pennsylvania Projects - Life Expectancy in Pennsylvania

PLoS Medicine conducted a study of the life expectancy of Pennsylvanians. They provided the data by county.
Use this information and your online research skills to answer the questions.

1. What is the life expectancy of people living in your home county?

In which county would you expect to live the longest?

Which county has the shortest life expectancy?

2. Find out the population of each of these counties. Is there a relationship between population and length of life?

U.S. Census Bureau - Select another demographic factor: Gender, race, median income, land area, number of high school graduates.

Get the facts for each of the counties you identified in question #1. Demographic and Economic Profile of Pennsylvania

Can you draw any conclusions?

Based on your findings, if the government wanted to improve the life expectancy of its citizens, what could it do?

3. Compared to the other states in the U. S., where does Pennsylvania rank regarding the longevity of its citizens?

Challenge: Which department(s) of Pennsylvania's government collect(s) data about when people are born and when they die?

What documents provide the proof of the birth or the death of someone in Pennsylvania?

Extra:

How to deal with a falling population

Why Survey? consider motives

Posted 9/2006 by Cynthia J. O'Hora This work is released to the public domain

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