Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Variable-oriented historical research is nomothetic and deductive.
2. Demographic standardization involves computing comparable measures across units of different population sizes, such as death rates per 1000 in different countries.
3. Qualitative comparative historical studies are likely to rely on availability or purposive samples of cases.
4. In demographic research, the emphasis is on characteristics of the population, not the sample.
5. It is not methodologically acceptable to turn qualitative historical characteristics into dichotomies to facilitate comparisons.


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. False

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