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Age Factors (Topical Term)

Preferred form: Age Factors
Used for/see from:
  • n: Age Reporting
  • n: Age Factor
  • n: Factor, Age
  • n: Factors, Age

NIM; no qualif; human & animal; related to cause & effect: do not confuse with AGE DISTRIBUTION which is largely statistical; differentiate from AGING, a physiol concept; policy: Manual 35.7

Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.

68; AGE-SEX DISTRIBUTION was see AGE FACTORS 1990-92