Answer:
d. The rate of death from lung cancer in carpenters in 1968–1979 was greater than would have been expected for a group of men of similar ages in all occupations
Explanation:
SMRs - Standardized mortality ratios are useful for measuring whether a population, made-up of workers in a certain industry, has higher mortality than what would be expected if the population had the same mortality rate as those in the general population.
SMRs = (observed number of deaths) / (expected number of deaths.)
This tool is used as an indirect method to adjust age expectation.
To draw inferences, when the ratio of SMRs is greater than 1 (or 100 when multiplied by this amount to remove the decimal).
This shows that the occupational demographic grouping has a higher mortality rate than what would be expected for a similar group of people of differing ages who are representative of a series of occupations, not just carpentry.