1. The number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a year is known as
_____.
Correct : C. crude birth rate
2. An enumeration or counting of a population is referred to as
Correct : B. census
3. Records of births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, gathered through a registration
system maintained by governmental units, are referred to as
Correct : C. vital statistics
4. __________ is the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low
birthrates and death rates.
Correct : A. demographic transition
5. Which one of the following has higher population density as compared to India?
Correct : D. bangladesh
6. the main cause for the high growth of our population is
Correct : A. decline of death rate
7. The number of people in different age group is referred as
Correct : B. age composition
8. What is the average sex ratio of India as per 2001 census?
Correct : B. 933
9. When did the national population policy came into effect?
Correct : C. 2000
10. India occupies ---------- rank among the population of the different countries of the
world?
Correct : D. second
11. Name the state having highest percentage of literacy level?
Correct : C. kerala
12. Which is the most populous country of the world?
Correct : C. china
13. Which is the year that experienced great demographic divide in the history of
population?
Correct : B. 1921
14. Which of the following is the major concern about the study of population in a
country?
Correct : B. characteristics of population
15. The time span for the official enumeration of population to carry out census?
Correct : B. 10 years
16. Sex ratio means……………
Correct : B. number of females per thousand males
17. Who was the exponent of optimum population theory ?
Correct : B. edwin cannan
18. The term “development”
Correct : C. is change towards in a desired direction
19. If both fertility and mortality decline, then:
Correct : C. proportion of dependent aged will increase
20. Largest component of internal migration in India is:
Correct : 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’
Correct : D. w g barclay
22. Who postulated that fertility increases in response to the progress of society?
Correct : A. herbert spencer
23. Human population can:
Correct : D. not exist apart from social-cultural interaction
24. Low birth rate and pregnancy wastage in the population are primarily due to:
Correct : A. traditional practices
25. Who gave the concept of social capillarity?
Correct : C. l dumont
26. The term ‘political socialization’ was used by:
Correct : A. herbert hayman
27. The scientific study of population is known as ---------------
Correct : B. demography
28. Which is the pull factor of Migration?
Correct : 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
Correct : B. population pyramid
30. Is the state of a population where the number of births plus immigrants equals the
number of deaths plus emigrants?