Deck 1: Population and Demography

Question 1

An enumeration or counting of a population is referred to as

A)vital statistics
B)census
C)fertility rate c
D)growth rate

Answer 1

census

Question 2

Records of births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units, are referred to as

A)census
B)demography
C)vital statistics
D)none of the above

Answer 2

vital statistics

Question 3

__________ is the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.

A)demographic transition
B)growth rate
C)demographic rate
D)morbidity

Answer 3

demographic transition

Question 4

Which one of the following has higher population density as compared to India?

A)canada
B)india
C)china
D)bangladesh

Question 5

What is the average sex ratio of India as per 2001 census?

A)900
B)933
C)923
D)none of the above

Question 6

The average number of persons per unit area, such as square kilometer, is termed as which of the following?

A)population distribution
B)population growth
C)absolute population
D)population density

Question 7

India occupies ---------- rank among the population of the different countries of the world?

A)third
B)first
C)fourth
D)second

Question 8

Name the state having highest percentage of literacy level?

A)west bengal
B)punjab
C)kerala
D)maharashtra

Question 9

Which is the most populous country of the world?

A)russia
B)united states
C)china
D)india

Question 10

The social indicator to measure the extent of equality between males and females in a society at a given time?

A)death rate
B)literacy rate
C)age composition
D)sex ratio

Question 11

Which is the year that experienced great demographic divide in the history of population?

A)1751
B)1921
C)1931
D)1911

Question 12

The time span for the official enumeration of population to carry out census?

A)1 years
B)10 years
C)2 years
D)5 years

Question 13

Who was the exponent of optimum population theory ?

A)Malthus
B)Edwin Cannan
C)Adam Smith
D)Amarthya Sen

Question 14

Malthus 's work is usually associated with the view that

A)improved technology can overcome the problems of population growth.
B)overpopulation will lead to social and political crises.
C)morality and religious approaches are the most effective counter forces to overpopulation, not government policy.
D)all of the above.

Question 15

Demographic Transition Theory

A)was originally developed to explain population explosions in the third world.
B)explains population growth in industrializing societies in terms of a time lag between when people die and when their children or grand children are born.
C)explains population growth in industrializing societies in terms of a time lag between falling death rates and falling birth rates.
D)all of the above

Question 16

The term "development"

A)is useful because it is unambiguous - everyone understands what the word means.
B)is highly contested and embodies the politics of the user.
C)is change towards in a desired direction
D)all of the above

Question 17

The major concern of social demography is the:

A)contemporary problem of the relation of population trends to social and economic development
B)relationship between aggregate demographic nomena and regularities in other social and individual units of human behavior
C)analysis of how general, social and cultural factors
D)study of size, composition and distribution of population at the present time

Question 18

Dc-facto census method is related to:

A)counting of the population on the basis of its permanent residential status
B)counting of the population according to where it is for a fortnight preceding the census'
C)counting of the populating according to where it is on the night the census
D)none of the above

Question 19

If both fertility and mortality decline, then:

A)proportion of dependent children will increase
B)proportion of active population will increase
C)proportion of dependent aged will increase
D)proportion of dependent aged will decrease

Question 20

Largest component of internal migration in India is:

A)rural urban migration
B)urban rural migration
C)marriage migration
D)rural migration

Question 21

Who has said that 'Democracy is concerned with the behaviour or the aggregate and not with the behaviour of individual'

A)Donald J. Bogue
B)Peter R. Cox
C)H. Strenford
D)W. G. Barclay

Question 22

Who postulated that fertility increases in response to the progress of society?

A)Herbert Spencer
B)Corrado Gini
C)E. M. Hoover
D)C. P. Blacker

Question 23

Human population can:

A)exist apart from cultural interaction
B)exist a part from social interaction
C)exist a part from social-cultural interaction
D)not exist apart from social-cultural interaction

Question 24

When over a period of time, the death rate in society reduces due to overall developments of life style and at the same time the birth rate does not fall down; population increases very fast as a result of it. This leads to over-population. This theory is known as:

A)demographic theory
B)population explosion theory
C)theory of demographic transition
D)demographic explosion theory

Question 25

Low birth rate and pregnancy wastage in the population are primarily due to:

A)traditional practices
B)maternal malnutrition
C)female illiteracy
D)insufficient health care

Question 26

Who gave the concept of social capillarity?

A)Bose
B)Wirth
C)Dumont
D)Mukherjee

Question 27

The term 'political socialization' was used by:

A)Herbert Hayman
B)Herbert Spencer
C)Almond Powell
D)Easton and Dannis

Question 28

Which is the pull factor of Migration?

A)religious conversion
B)natural calamities
C)political disorder
D)employment opportunities

Question 29

is the median number of years a person can be expected to live under certain mortality conditions

A)life expectancy
B)mortality rate
C)growth rate
D)fertility rate

Question 30

A special type of bar chart that distributes the population by gender and age, and is generally used to illustrate the population structure of a society, is called a/an

A)analysis of variance
B)population pyramid
C)chi-square
D)multiple regression