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1. |
The number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a year is known as _____. |
A. | fecundity |
B. | fertility |
C. | crude birth rate |
D. | basic demographic equation |
Answer» C. crude birth rate |
2. |
An enumeration or counting of a population is referred to as |
A. | vital statistic |
B. | census |
C. | fertility rate c |
D. | growth rate |
Answer» B. census |
3. |
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» C. vital statistics |
4. |
__________ 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» A. demographic transition |
5. |
Which one of the following has higher population density as compared to India? |
A. | canada |
B. | india |
C. | china |
D. | bangladesh |
Answer» D. bangladesh |
6. |
the main cause for the high growth of our population is |
A. | decline of death rate |
B. | decrease in birth rate |
C. | rise in death rate |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. decline of death rate |
7. |
The number of people in different age group is referred as |
A. | adolescent population |
B. | age composition |
C. | sex ratio |
D. | occupational structure |
Answer» B. age composition |
8. |
What is the average sex ratio of India as per 2001 census? |
A. | 900 |
B. | 933 |
C. | 923 |
D. | none of the above |
Answer» B. 933 |
9. |
When did the national population policy came into effect? |
A. | 1952 |
B. | 2001 |
C. | 2000 |
D. | 1947 |
Answer» C. 2000 |
10. |
India occupies ---------- rank among the population of the different countries of the world? |
A. | a. third |
B. | first |
C. | fourth |
D. | second |
Answer» D. second |
11. |
Name the state having highest percentage of literacy level? |
A. | west bengal |
B. | punjab |
C. | kerala |
D. | maharashtra |
Answer» C. kerala |
12. |
Which is the most populous country of the world? |
A. | a. russia |
B. | united states |
C. | china |
D. | india |
Answer» C. china |
13. |
Which is the year that experienced great demographic divide in the history of population? |
A. | 1751 |
B. | 1921 |
C. | 1931 |
D. | 1911 |
Answer» B. 1921 |
14. |
Which of the following is the major concern about the study of population in a country? |
A. | population size and distribution |
B. | characteristics of population |
C. | population growth and process of population change |
D. | all of the above |
Answer» B. characteristics of population |
15. |
The time span for the official enumeration of population to carry out census? |
A. | a. 1 years |
B. | 10 years |
C. | 2 years |
D. | 5 years |
Answer» B. 10 years |
16. |
Sex ratio means…………… |
A. | difference between birth rate and death rate |
B. | number of females per thousand males |
C. | number of females per hundred males |
D. | the study of population growth |
Answer» B. number of females per thousand males |
17. |
Who was the exponent of optimum population theory ? |
A. | malthus |
B. | edwin cannan |
C. | adam smith |
D. | amarthyasen |
Answer» B. edwin cannan |
18. |
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 |
Answer» C. is change towards in a desired direction |
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 |
Answer» C. proportion of dependent aged will increase |
20. |
Largest component of internal migration in India is: |
A. | rural urban migration |
B. | urban rural migration |
C. | marriage migration |
D. | rural migration |
Answer» A. rural urban migration |
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 |
Answer» D. w g barclay |
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 |
Answer» A. herbert spencer |
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 |
Answer» D. not exist apart from social-cultural interaction |
24. |
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 |
Answer» A. traditional practices |
25. |
Who gave the concept of social capillarity? |
A. | a bose |
B. | l wirth |
C. | l dumont |
D. | r k mukherjee |
Answer» C. l dumont |
26. |
The term ‘political socialization’ was used by: |
A. | herbert hayman |
B. | herbert spencer |
C. | almond powell |
D. | easton and dannis |
Answer» A. herbert hayman |
27. |
The scientific study of population is known as --------------- |
A. | population studies |
B. | demography |
C. | population science |
D. | gerentology |
Answer» B. demography |
28. |
Which is the pull factor of Migration? |
A. | religious conversion |
B. | natural calamities |
C. | political disorder |
D. | employment opportunities |
Answer» D. employment opportunities |
29. |
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 |
Answer» B. population pyramid |
30. |
Is the state of a population where the number of births plus immigrants equals the number of deaths plus emigrants? |
A. | demographic echo |
B. | zero population growth |
C. | rebound |
D. | demographic transition |
Answer» B. zero population growth |
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