Hello,

I am trying to combine the yearly rates reported for 2007, 2008 and 2009 together to compare with rates during 2010 and 2011 to check the trend. Could you please help?

Here is my data

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| yearofd~e ageadj~e count population |
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1. | 2000-2016 177.8 432,654 265,469,373 |
2. | 2000 104.1 12,658 12,308,630 |
3. | 2001 180.1 22,102 12,511,800 |
4. | 2002 198.1 24,679 12,929,776 |
5. | 2003 203.9 25,782 13,305,892 |
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6. | 2004 204.6 26,170 13,655,758 |
7. | 2005 202.8 26,310 14,048,496 |
8. | 2006 201.6 26,568 14,440,688 |
9. | 2007 198.9 26,783 14,857,807 |
10. | 2008 194.2 26,780 15,326,260 |
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11. | 2009 188.3 26,694 15,844,611 |
12. | 2010 183.6 26,729 16,385,713 |
13. | 2011 178.2 26,594 16,918,946 |

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Thank you,
Manoj