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FROM THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS Percentage of Adults Aged 265 Years Who Had Ever Received a Pneumococcal Vaccination,* by Selected Race/Ethnicity National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2000-20115 100 -white, non-Hispanic 90 Black, non-Hispanic _Hispanic 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Based on a survey question that asked respondents, Have you ever had apneumonia shot? This shot is usually given onlyonce or twice inaperson's lifetime and is diffierent from the flu shot It is also called the pneumococcal vaccine Persons of Hispanic ethnicity might be of any race or combination of races. were not included in the denominators when calculating percentages Estimates were based onhousehold interviews of a sample of the US.civilian, noninstitutionalizedpopulation included in the National Health Interview Survey The percentage of adults aged 265 years who had ever received a pneumococcal vaccination increased from 56.8% in 2000 to 66.5% in 2011 among non-Hispanic whites, from 30S% in 2000 to 47.6% in 2011 among non-Hispanic blacks, and from 30.4% in 2000 to 43.1% in 2011 among Hispanics. Throughout 2000-2011, the percentage who had ever received a pneumococcal vaccination was higher among non-Hispanic white adults aged 265 years than among Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks Source:National Health Interview Survey, 2001-2011 sample adult core component. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm Reported by Lindsey LJones, MPH, izf4acdcgov, 301-458-4548, Jeannine S. Schiller, MPH.

The authors use the term “percentage” to talk about the percentage of persons over 65 who had ever received an influenza vaccination. A better term might be?

a. crude mortality rate

b. age-specific mortality rate

c. sex-specific mortality rate

d. cause-specific mortality rate

e. case-fatality rate

f. incidence

g. cumulative incidence

h. period prevalence

i. point prevalence

Answer 1

Option B is correct as this is the case of Age specific mortality rate as there is description of a disease incidence with respect to the particular age.