Demography

Brent Surace Human Demography & Life Lab A list of data collected from the headstones of men and women who have passed away at the Buies Creek cemetery both before and after the year 1930. Studies and comparisons were done to examine the similarities and differences between males and females and the years of their individual deaths. The age of the deceased and their personal year of death were gathered from various headstones in an area of …

…sometimes overlooked, making results contradict or vary when compared to another experiment on the same subject. Uncontroversial facts that can be gathered from this lab is that women can and have shown to possess the ability to outlive the men born around the same time. The fact that persons born toward the end of this century have been shown to exhibit surviving skills that are higher than that of those born prior to the year 1930.