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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (BA Sociology) .
| 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 statistics |
| 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. |
The term ---------------------- refers to relatively permanent movement of people from one place to another? |
| A. | immigration |
| B. | emigration |
| C. | migration |
| D. | demographic transition |
| Answer» C. migration | |
| 6. |
Which one of the following has higher population density as compared to India? |
| A. | canada |
| B. | india |
| C. | china |
| D. | bangladesh |
| Answer» D. bangladesh | |
| 7. |
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 | |
| 8. |
Which of the following is the most significant feature of Indian population? |
| A. | improvement in the literacy level |
| B. | the size of its adolescent population |
| C. | improvement in health condition |
| D. | declining in birth rate |
| Answer» D. declining in birth rate | |
| 9. |
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 | |
| 10. |
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 | |
| 11. |
When did the national population policy came into effect? |
| A. | 1952 |
| B. | 2001 |
| C. | 2000 |
| D. | 1947 |
| Answer» C. 2000 | |
| 12. |
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 |
| Answer» D. population density | |
| 13. |
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 | |
| 14. |
Name the state having highest percentage of literacy level? |
| A. | west bengal |
| B. | punjab |
| C. | kerala |
| D. | maharashtra |
| Answer» C. kerala | |
| 15. |
Which is the most populous country of the world? |
| A. | a. russia |
| B. | united states |
| C. | china |
| D. | india |
| Answer» C. china | |
| 16. |
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 |
| Answer» D. sex ratio | |
| 17. |
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 | |
| 18. |
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 | |
| 19. |
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 | |
| 20. |
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 | |
| 21. |
Who was the exponent of optimum population theory ? |
| A. | malthus |
| B. | edwin cannan |
| C. | adam smith |
| D. | amarthyasen |
| Answer» B. edwin cannan | |
| 22. |
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. |
| Answer» B. overpopulation will lead to social and political crises. | |
| 23. |
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 |
| Answer» C. explains population growth in industrializing societies in terms of a time lag between falling death rates and falling birth rates. | |
| 24. |
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 | |
| 25. |
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 |
| Answer» D. study of size, composition and distribution of population at the present time | |
| 26. |
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 |
| Answer» B. counting of the population according to where it is for a fortnight preceding the census’ | |
| 27. |
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 | |
| 28. |
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 | |
| 29. |
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 | |
| 30. |
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 | |
| 31. |
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 | |
| 32. |
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 |
| Answer» B. population explosion theory | |
| 33. |
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 | |
| 34. |
Who gave the concept of social capillarity? |
| A. | a bose |
| B. | l wirth |
| C. | l dumont |
| D. | r k mukherjee |
| Answer» C. l dumont | |
| 35. |
The term ‘political socialization’ was used by: |
| A. | herbert hayman |
| B. | herbert spencer |
| C. | almond powell |
| D. | easton and dannis |
| Answer» A. herbert hayman | |
| 36. |
Which is the pull factor of Migration? |
| A. | religious conversion |
| B. | natural calamities |
| C. | political disorder |
| D. | employment opportunities |
| Answer» D. employment opportunities | |
| 37. |
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 |
| Answer» A. life expectancy | |
| 38. |
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 | |
| 39. |
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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