Al descender a grupos quinquenales

English translation: reducing [the data] to five-year age groups

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
Spanish term or phrase:Al descender a grupos quinquenales
English translation:reducing [the data] to five-year age groups
Entered by: Chris Bruton

03:10 Dec 1, 2008
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care
Spanish term or phrase: Al descender a grupos quinquenales
Al descender a grupos quinquenales, los resultados indican que las prevalencias oscilan entre el 0,7% y el 2,4% hasta los 79 años y se incrementan de forma significativa (p
Chris Bruton
United States
Local time: 06:45
reducing [the data] to five-year age groups
Explanation:
More grammatical: "If the data are reduced to five-year age groups, the prevalences range ..." ("Results" is reduncant.)

There isn't enough context to show what "descender" is coming down from - with more context, I might choose another verb, but I'm positive that a text of this kind would speak of "five-year age groups" (I have worked in public health for 35 years.)

57,700 references for "five-year age groups; 7,xxx refs for '"five-year age groups"+prevalence]. Examples:

Disease models describing the relationship between incidence, prevalence and .... code 174) for 1991–1995, averaged by five-year age groups up to 85+. ...
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=156644 - Similar pages -
by ME Kruijshaar - 2003

prevalence/1000 population in particular age-groups at a particular time hoping that ... five-year age-groups and severity. Population figures for years and ...
contents.bjdd.net/oldPDFs/52_26to29.pdf

Changing the prevalence of disease or the transitions rates for each disease ... .... 7 ... Transition rates were observed by five year age groups ...
www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences/extranet/research-groups/nuffield/project_profiles/KF117AppendixA.pdf

Selected response from:

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 04:45
Grading comment
Practical, common sense language. Thank you very much.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1reduced to quinquennial groups
David Hollywood
5reducing [the data] to five-year age groups
Muriel Vasconcellos


  

Answers


16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
reduced to quinquennial groups


Explanation:
Estimated births in the ten years preceding each census, 1851 to 1911; enumerated population (Persons, Males and Females) at quinquennial groups of ages at ...
www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/report_page.jsp?rpt_id=EW... - 26k - En caché - Páginas similares
BOLETIN DEMOGRAFICO No. 64(b) Estimates and projections of the total economically active population by sex and quinquennial age group; (b) Estimates and projections of the urban ...
www.eclac.org/Celade/publica/bol64/BD64.html - 8k - En caché - Páginas similares
JSTOR: Uniformity in Census Returns - [ Traducir esta página ]Age in the city and in the country; quinquennial groups of age for -- (a) ... Civil state according to age; quinquennial groups beginning with the age oil' ...


David Hollywood
Local time: 08:45
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 75

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gilberto Diaz Castro: Please complete it: when reduced to...
2 hrs
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
reducing [the data] to five-year age groups


Explanation:
More grammatical: "If the data are reduced to five-year age groups, the prevalences range ..." ("Results" is reduncant.)

There isn't enough context to show what "descender" is coming down from - with more context, I might choose another verb, but I'm positive that a text of this kind would speak of "five-year age groups" (I have worked in public health for 35 years.)

57,700 references for "five-year age groups; 7,xxx refs for '"five-year age groups"+prevalence]. Examples:

Disease models describing the relationship between incidence, prevalence and .... code 174) for 1991–1995, averaged by five-year age groups up to 85+. ...
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=156644 - Similar pages -
by ME Kruijshaar - 2003

prevalence/1000 population in particular age-groups at a particular time hoping that ... five-year age-groups and severity. Population figures for years and ...
contents.bjdd.net/oldPDFs/52_26to29.pdf

Changing the prevalence of disease or the transitions rates for each disease ... .... 7 ... Transition rates were observed by five year age groups ...
www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences/extranet/research-groups/nuffield/project_profiles/KF117AppendixA.pdf



Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 04:45
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 262
Grading comment
Practical, common sense language. Thank you very much.
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.


See also:
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search