On Mar 9, 10:28*pm, statistics
wrote:
how do you calculate an age-specific mortality rate when you have the
information of:
the total population
the population for a specific age group
total amount of deaths
total amount of deaths for that age group

Not really an Excel question, but a quick Google search turns up this
explanation of the math: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_table

Standard Wikipedia disclaimers apply.

Dave