age cohort

collocation in English

meaningsofageandcohort

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age
noun
uk
/eɪdʒ/us
/eɪdʒ/
the period of time someone has been alive or something ...
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cohort
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈkəʊ.hɔːt/us
/ˈkoʊ.hɔːrt/
social sciencespecialized
a group of people who share a characteristic, ...
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(Definition ofageandcohortfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofage cohort

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Theagecohort-wise regressions offer some further interesting insights.
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However, prevalence in the older age cohorts showed some marked changes rising to well above 20% inagecohort3 in 1994 andagecohort2 in 1996.
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In spite of this, 68 % of the persons in the oldestagecohortresponded.
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If a population grows in size, the proportions of individuals in eachagecohortchange.
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The intervention involves all children of anagecohortin middle schools.
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Results presented here concern the first wave of interviews conducted for eachagecohort.
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The model attaches resource utilization and costs to anagecohortin a given year.
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This is due to the fact that there are more women than men in the oldestagecohort.
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We estimated the average annual number of reported cases per number of susceptibles for eachagecohort.
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The water scarcity variable was found to be positive and significant only for the middleagecohort.
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Persons enter the model at the start of the year into the firstagecohort(at 15 years of age).
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It would be tempting to interpret theagecohorteffects as developmental differences, but they are not.
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We observe that in the heart of the great metropolis, linguistic changes advance steadily from one femaleagecohortto another.
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Given survival probabilities by age, the total number of individuals in eachagecohortis computed at each point in time.
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This reveals age as a key determinant of when and how staff left, and whether any members of theiragecohortwere recruited.
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From the database of reported measles cases we extracted the number of cases peragecohortper year from 1988 until 2000.
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What we are faced with inagecohortand word initial cohort, however, is notfigurativeextensions of an earlier meaning, but something much more drastic.
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Nevertheless, relative to the size of theiragecohortin the organisation, they were by far the most likely to leave.
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