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Finding Health Related Statistics Quiz

Here are statistics questions to help you get familiar with some useful internet statistics web sites. The link after the question is the best place to start.

  1. How would you find out how many people in the United States have diabetes?
    •  Go to Fastats
    •  Find the statistics portion of the American Diabetes Association web site
    •  Look in the Wikipedia (company selling products)
    •  Use a search engine like Google to search for diabetes statistics
  2. How many children age 5 and under live in Chapel Hill?
    •   Use Google or another search engine to search the web by typing children under 5 chapel hill
    •  Go to the Carolina Population web site
    •  Use Fedstats
    •  Use a search engine like Google to search for Chapel Hill statistics children under 5
  3. Where would you go to find out how many whooping cough deaths were there in the United States during 2001?
    •  CBSnews.com story about whooping cough
    •  Fedstats
    •  Fastats
    •  WrongDiagnosis.com
  4. How would you learn the life expectancy at birth of females born in Afghanistan?
    •  Use Google or another search engine to search the web by typing life expectancy birth Afghanistan
    •  Go to the World Health Organization site
    •  Use the CIA World Fact Book
    •  Go to Radio Afghanistan