Deck 2: Demographic Trends in Canada

Question 1

Which of the following methods is used to study the frequency of marriages that occur between individuals with the same surname?

A) dependency ratio
B) isonomy
C) Crow's index of selection
D) kinship coefficients

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Migration is always voluntary.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

What is the movement of people into a specific area called?

A) migration
B) emigration
C) diaspora
D) immigration

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Demographic data can be summarized over specific geographical areas and/or over time periods.What is this process called?

A) globalizing
B) aggregating
C) dissipating
D) integrating

Question 5

In demographic analysis,which of these terms is used to describe a group of individuals who live together?

A) cult
B) household
C) family
D) clique

Question 6

What are vital registries?

A) census entries
B) important legal documents
C) records on births,deaths and marriages
D) journal entries made by individuals throughout their lifetime

Question 7

In Canada,females have a higher life expectance than males.

Question 8

Why is nuptiality an important variable in demographic analysis?

A) It limits the pool of mates.
B) It limits one's choice of a place to live.
C) It defines the life expectancy of a population.
D) It defines the length of the female reproductive period.

Question 9

Data can be divided into nonoverlapping age categories to make demographic inferences about segments of the population who are at different stages of life.What is this type of analysis called?

A) latitudinal
B) longitudinal
C) cross-sectional
D) stratified random sampling

Question 10

Which of the following provides the most accurate information?

A) crude marriage rate
B) crude birth rate
C) crude death rate
D) age-specific marriage rate

Question 11

Which of the following occurs when infant mortality is high?

A) life expectancy is high
B) fertility is low
C) life expectancy is low
D) fertility is high

Question 12

Which of the following is often related to celibacy?

A) propinquities
B) inheritance practices
C) polymorphisms
D) nutritional requirements

Question 13

Social attitudes toward reproduction can affect fertility.

Question 14

The incidence of particular diseases in a population is related to both the social and physical environments.

Question 15

A subfield of demography focuses on nonwritten sources of information to study patterns of birth,death and migration in prehistoric populations.What is this subfield called?

A) paleodemography
B) historical demography
C) primordial demography
D) ancient demography

Question 16

What is the maximum number of years that a human has ever lived?

A) 107
B) 111
C) 122
D) 130

Question 17

What is the incidence of particular diseases in a population called?

A) morbidity
B) morphology
C) mortality
D) polyandry

Question 18

Patterns of economic activity coupled with religious restrictions can affect the seasonal pattern of marriage.

Question 19

What is the proportion of the population under the age 15 and above the age of 64 called?

A) dependency ratio
B) geodesic ratio
C) extreme ratio
D) harmonized ratio

Question 20

Nominative records are those which:

A) provide normalized information on individuals
B) provide the names of individuals
C) are not as important as vital registries
D) identify the age and sex of individuals

Question 21

How do fertility,nuptiality,mortality,and migration affect the size of a population?

Question 22

In Canada,the proportion of the population over the age of 64 almost tripled between 1921 and 2006.Why?

Question 23

Studies of historical patterns of mortality often focus on epidemics.

Question 24

In Canada,the majority of external migrants originate from South America.

Question 25

A cohort is a group of people who share the timing of a vital event,such as the same year of birth.

Question 26

Suppose you are a demographer who is examining large populations and recording hundreds of vital events each year.Identify and define one of the three techniques that you could use to evaluate the quality of your data.

Question 27

Why is infant mortality a useful indicator of the general health status of a population?

Question 28

Identify and define the four aspects used to define a population.

Question 29

Should the definition of the dependency ratio be changed?

Question 30

If you were going to reconstruct your family's genealogy,what types and sources of information would you need?

Question 31

Members of a household are not necessarily related to each other.

Question 32

How is fertility different from fecundity?

Question 33

In most populations,including humans,selection of a mate is random.