Age and Gender Related Powerpoint Presentation for Community Medicine - KUHS Suitable For 4th SEMESTER Students Doing Family Health Survey Presented By, Two Students From Mount Zion Medical College

1. AGE AND
GENDER
PRESENTED BY :
AKSHAI M PRASANTH
AHAMED FARIS

2. • BY : AHAMED FARIS

3. • IT IS DEFINED ASTHE INTERVALTIME BETWEEN DATE OF BIRTH AND
THE DATE OF SURVEYTAKEN, EXPRESSED IN COMPLETE SOLAR
YEARS.
• IN HUMANS, AGEING REPRESENTS THE ACCUMULATION OF CHANGES
IN A HUMAN BEING OVERTIME,
ENCOMPASSING PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL CHANGES.

4. • DEFINED AS PERCENTAGE OFTHETOTAL POPULATION,OR THE
POPULATION OF EACH SEX, AT EACH AGE LEVEL .
• ALSO CALLED AS AGE COMPOSITION .
• IT DIFFERS AMONG DIFFERENT COUNTRIES BECAUSE OF DIFFERENCE IN
THE LEVELS AND TRENDS OF FERTILITY.

5. AGE DISTRIBUTIONTABLE
AGE FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE (%)
<5 9 6.87
5-15 12 9.16
16-45 54 41.22
46-65 42 32.06
>65 14 10.68
TOTAL 125 100

7. INTERPRETATION OF AGE
DISTRIBUTION
•Out of the 32 family we surveyed, among the 131
people in them, we found that 9 were of age less than
5yrs(6.87%), 12 were of age between 5-15yrs(9.16%),
54 of age between 16-45yrs (41.22%), 42 of age
between 46-65yrs (32.06%) and 14 of age >65yrs
(10.68%).

8. • IT IS DEFINED ASTHE MEASUREMENT SHOWING NUMBER OF
DEPENDENCE, AGED 0-14 AND OVERTHE AGE OF 65,TOTHETOTAL
POPULATION,AGED 15-64.
• IT ISTHE RELATIONSHIP B/WTHEWORKING OR ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE
POPULATION ANDTHE NON-WORKING POPULATION.
• IT IS ALSO REFERRED ASTOTAL DEPENDENCY RATIO.
• THE DEPENDENCY RATIO FOR MDC IS USUALLY BETWEEN 50&75
WHEREAS LDC HAVE RATIOS BETWEEN 85&105.
• IT IS

9. TABLE 2 : AGE DEPENDENCY
AGE FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE
(%)
<15 20 15.3
15-65 97 74.0
>65 14 10.7
TOTAL 131 100

10. TOTAL DEPENDENCY RATIO =
( <15 + >65 ) / (15-65)
ie, (20+14) / 97
= 0.350
IN PERCENTAGE, 35%

11. AGE PYRAMID
•IT IS A GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATION THAT SHOWSTHE
DISTRIBUTION OFVARIOUSAGE GROUP IN A POPULATION,
WHICH FORMSTHE SHAPE OF A PYRAMIDWHENTHE
POPULATION IS GROWING .
•IT IS ALSO CALLEDAS POPULATION PYRAMID OR AGE-SEX
PYRAMID.
•IT ISVIEWED ASTHE MOST EFFECTIVEWAYTO GRAPHICALLY
DEPICTTHE AGE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION OF A POPULATION.

12. FIGURE 2:AGE PYRAMID
8
6
26
19
7
1
6
28
23
7
-40 -30 -20 -10 0 10 20 30
<5
5-15
16-45
46-65
>65
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13. GENDER
• AKSHAI M PRASANTHS

14. • IT REFERSTOTHE RANGE OF CHARACTERISTICS PERTAININGTO,
AND DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY.
(DEFN SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA)
• MOST CULTURES USE A GENDER BINARY, HAVINGTWO GENDERS
(BOYS/MEN AND GIRLS/WOMEN), THOSE WHO EXIST OUTSIDE
THESE GROUPS FALL UNDERTHE UMBRELLATERM NON-BINARY
OR GENDERQUEER.
• SOME SOCIETIES HAVE SPECIFIC GENDERS BESIDES "MAN" AND
"WOMAN", SUCH ASTHE HIJRAS OF SOUTH ASIA;THESE ARE OFTEN
REFERREDTO ASTHIRD GENDERS (AND FOURTH GENDERS, ETC).

15. GENDER DISTRIBUTION

16. GENDER DISTRIBUTION TABLE
GENDER FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE
MALE 67 51.1
FEMALE 64 48.9
TOTAL 131 100

17. FIGURE 3: GENDER DISTRIBUTION
(PIE CHART)
MALE FEMALE
51.1%48.9%

18. SEX RATIO
•IT IS DEFINED ASTHE NUMBER OF FEMALES PER 1000 MALES.
•IN ANY STUDY OF POPULATION , ANALYSISOF SEX
COMPOSITION PLAYS AVITAL ROLE.
•THE SEX COMPOSITION OFTHE POPULATION IS AFFECTED BY
THE DIFFERENTIAL IN MORTALITY CONDITIONSOF MALEAND
FEMALE, SEX SELECTIVE MIGRATIONAND SEX RATIO AT BIRTH.

19. •OUT OFTHE 32 FAMILY SURVEYED, AMONGTHE 131
PEOPLE,WE FOUNDTHAT 67WERE MALES(51.1%) AND
64WERE FEMALES(48.9%).
•SEX RATIO:955/1000

20. TABLE 4: AGE-GENDER DISTRIBUTION
AGE GENDER TOTAL
MALES FEMALES
<5 8 1 9
5-15 6 6 12
16-45 26 28 54
46-65 20 22 42
>65 7 7 14
TOTAL 67 64 131

21. IMPORTANCE OF AGE-SEX STRUCTURE
•PLANNING PURPOSES-HEALTH SERVICES, EDUCATION
PROGRAMS,TRANSPORTATION, LABOR SUPPLY.
•SOCIAL SCIENCE, ECONOMIST, GENDER STUDIES.
•STUDYING POPULATION DYNAMICS- FERTILITY,
MORTALITY, MIGRATION.
•INSIGHT ON QUALITY OF CENSES ENUMERATION.

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