Human Ecology, LAB Cemetery lab, Human Demography

1. Lab Intro Cemetery materials is a .pdf: READ THIS FIRST!! This is background material. You are looking for data from the turn of LAST century. At least one population has to be from that time period. There are questions asked on this document, but you don't need to record/ submit any answers to them.

2. "Lab 3 Answer Sheet" is an MS Word doc: Read this one and TURN THIS ONE IN HERE. Read the .pdf document first, then this one. Complete your data collection and the Excel data summary sheet (next), then answer these questions. Be sure to put thought into your answers and refer to all the readings to date as needed to develop analytical skills and to understand the data collection and assessment process. Please contact me with any questions. Be sure to save your file with your last name (e.g. Smith.doc).

3. "Lab 3 Cemetery_Lab_Worksheet" is an excel spreadsheet: TURN THIS ONE IN TOO. This is the Excel spreadsheet where you will enter your data. The spreadsheet does the calculations for you. It will also create a graph for you, similar to the ones described in the .pdf and .doc. You will use this graph to help you complete the questions on the Word .doc. You will submit this sheet for grading. Read the instructions and fill in the "yellow" squares - the rest will calculate automatically. Be sure to save the file with your last name (e.g. Smith.xls).

If you can't visit a cemetery and collect data, you'll need to get on-line cemetery data. Please let me know the reason why you're using this online data or else I'd expect you to collect your data in the field. Here's some online data if you need it. You may not find what you need on this site (i.e. you might not find both birth and death data depending on your selection). If you use another open source on the internet, make sure to include the url in your assignment.

Questions - Answer all five below:

1. Do the survivorship curves for your two cohorts differ from one another? Describe and explain any differences. If there are no discernable differences, explain why this may be the case.

2. Examine the survivorship curves provided with Table B. These depict males and females separately for two cohorts of persons buried in a church cemetery in St. Mary's County, Maryland. One cohort consists of persons born 1801-1850, and persons in the other cohort were born 1851-1900. What differences do you notice between the male and female curves for the 1801-1850 cohort? Do you see a similar pattern in the 1851-1900 cohort? Is the pattern consistent with what you know about male and female life expectancies in the USA today? Do you observe a similar pattern in your own data set? If you have enough males and females in your dataset, you may graph the male-female data to help you answer the question. The spreadsheet demgraph.xls has a worksheet (template- 4 lines on graph) that will help you.

3. When examining a birth cohort (such as was done with the example in Table B), it is important to follow the cohort through the death of the last individual. How would your survivorship curves be affected if you were to study a later birth cohort, such as persons born 1901-1950?

4. When examining a death cohort (a hypothetical example might be persons who died between 1916-1925), how would your data be affected if the cemetery were a relatively new one?

5. In your data, do you see any evidence of events causing a large number of deaths, such as wars or the influenza pandemic? Why or why not?

Attachment:- Attachments.rar

Attachment:- Lab_Answer_Sheet.rar