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. The term ---------------------- refers to relatively permanent movement of people from one
place to another?
Correct : C. migration
6. Which one of the following has higher population density as compared to India?
Correct : D. bangladesh
7. the main cause for the high growth of our population is
Correct : A. decline of death rate
8. Which of the following is the most significant feature of Indian population?
Correct : D. declining in birth rate
9. The number of people in different age group is referred as
Correct : B. age composition
10. What is the average sex ratio of India as per 2001 census?
Correct : B. 933
11. When did the national population policy came into effect?
Correct : C. 2000
12. The average number of persons per unit area, such as square kilometer, is termed as
which of the following?
Correct : D. population density
13. India occupies ---------- rank among the population of the different countries of the
world?
Correct : D. second
14. Name the state having highest percentage of literacy level?
Correct : C. kerala
15. Which is the most populous country of the world?
Correct : C. china
16. The social indicator to measure the extent of equality between males and females in a
society at a given time?
Correct : D. sex ratio
17. Which is the year that experienced great demographic divide in the history of
population?
Correct : B. 1921
18. Which of the following is the major concern about the study of population in a
country?
Correct : B. characteristics of population
19. The time span for the official enumeration of population to carry out census?
Correct : B. 10 years
20. Sex ratio means……………
Correct : B. number of females per thousand males
21. Who was the exponent of optimum population theory ?
Correct : B. edwin cannan
22. Malthus ‘s work is usually associated with the view that
Correct : B. overpopulation will lead to social and political crises.
23. Demographic Transition Theory
Correct : 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”
Correct : C. is change towards in a desired direction
25. The major concern of social demography is the:
Correct : D. study of size, composition and distribution of population at the present time
26. Dc-facto census method is related to:
Correct : B. counting of the population according to where it is for a fortnight preceding the census’
27. If both fertility and mortality decline, then:
Correct : C. proportion of dependent aged will increase
28. Largest component of internal migration in India is:
Correct : 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’
Correct : D. w g barclay
30. Who postulated that fertility increases in response to the progress of society?
Correct : A. herbert spencer
31. Human population can:
Correct : 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:
Correct : B. population explosion theory
33. Low birth rate and pregnancy wastage in the population are primarily due to:
Correct : A. traditional practices
34. Who gave the concept of social capillarity?
Correct : C. l dumont
35. The term ‘political socialization’ was used by:
Correct : A. herbert hayman
36. Which is the pull factor of Migration?
Correct : D. employment opportunities
37. is the median number of years a person can be expected to live under certain mortality
conditions
Correct : 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
Correct : B. population pyramid
39. Is the state of a population where the number of births plus immigrants equals the
number of deaths plus emigrants?