1. Among the following States, which has highest percentage decadal growth rate during the
2001 – 2011?
Correct : A. Arunachal Pradesh
2. As per 2011 Census of India, which is the overall sex ratio of the country’s population?
Correct : D. 940
3. Which among the following rate is referred as probabilistic rate?
Correct : C. Marriage rate
4. Which among the following is not a non-probability sampling?
Correct : A. Accidental Sampling
5. Which among the North-Eastern States of India has the highest literacy level as per 2011
Census?
Correct : B. Mizoram
6. What is the estimated share of disabled persons in India according to 2001 Census?
Correct : A. Less than 2%
7. Which one among the following term refers to number of children an average woman can
bear in her reproductive span?
Correct : B. Fecundity
8. . If sex ratio of birth is constant at 1.05, then the Gross Reproduction Rate (GRR) can be calculated using Total Fertility Rate (TFR) by the formula
Correct : C. GRR = (1.00 TFR) / 2.05
9. If country A has a higher life expectancy than country B, but A has higher crude death rate, it is likely that
Correct : A. A’s population is younger than that of B.
10. Which among the following does not explain the law of urbanization?
Correct : B. Dispersal and Segregation
11. Assertion (A): International Migration leads to rise in productivity in both the sending and receiving countries.
Reason (R): Emigrants are receiving better wages.
Codes:
Correct : A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
12. Which of the following countries has the highest out migration of the nursing
professionals?
Correct : A. The Philippines
13. Which of the following did not give a model of city structure?
Correct : D. Michael &Todaro
14. . Which of the following is known for his contribution towards theorising social composition of population?
Correct : C. Talcott Parsons
15. In which stage of industrialization given below the fourth stage (4) of Demographic
Transition Theory would occur?
Correct : A. Advanced Industrialization and Urbanization stage
16. Which of the following is not a measure of socio-economic status?
Correct : D. Body Mass Index
17. Which one of the following is not a spacing method of family planning?
Correct : C. Vasectomy
18. In which year, the Government of India launched the Reproductive and Child Health
(RCH) Programme?
Correct : B. 1995
19. Which variable among the following are not demographic characteristics of the
population?
Correct : D. Literacy level
20. When does National Sample Survey (NSS) started collecting data on births and deaths?
Correct : D. 1958 – 59
21. The number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a year is known as _____.
Correct : C. Crude birth rate
22. An enumeration or counting of a population is referred to as
Correct : B. Census
23. Records of births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units, are referred to as
Correct : C. vital statistics
24. __________ is the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates
and death rates.
Correct : A. demographic transition
25. The term ——————————— refers to relatively permanent movement of people
from one place to another?
Correct : C. migration
26. Which one of the following has higher population density as compared to India?
Correct : D. Bangladesh
27. The main cause for the high growth of our population is
Correct : A. decline of death rate
28. Which of the following is the most significant feature of Indian population?
Correct : D. declining in birth rate
29. The number of people in different age group is referred as
Correct : B. age composition
30. What is the average sex ratio of India as per 2001 census?
Correct : B. 933
31. Which among the following States has shown fast decline in growth rate during 2011
compared to 2001
Correct : C. Maharashtra
32. As per the 2001 Census of India the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes together
constitute. What percentage to the total population of the country?
Correct : A. 24 percent
33. According to 2011 Census of India the density of population is
Correct : C. 350 – 399 persons per sq. km.
34. Child-Woman ratio is a measure of
Correct : D. Fertility
35. As per the 2011 Census of India which State among the following has highest female
literacy rate?
Correct : C. Kerala
36. What is the shape of the graph of human population growth to the present resembles?
Correct : B. ‘J’ shaped curve
37. As per the Census of India 2011 the sex ratio in Kerala ranges in which of the category?
Correct : D. Above 1001 females per thousand males
38. For calculation of Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR). The denominator is
Correct : C. Total number of live births in given time
39. For computation of Infant Mortality Rate, the denominator iswww.netugc.com
Correct : C. Total number of live births in given time.
40. Which one of the following States is mostly urbanized?
Correct : C. Maharashtra
41. When did the national population policy came into effect?
Correct : C. 2000
42. The average number of persons per unit area, such as square kilometer, is termed as which of
the following?
Correct : D. population density
43. India occupies ————— rank among the population of the different countries of the world?
Correct : D. second
44. Name the state having highest percentage of literacy level?
Correct : C. Kerala
45. Which is the most populous country of the world?
Correct : C. China
46. The social indicator to measure the extent of equality between males and females in a society at
a given time?
Correct : D. Sex ratio
47. Which is the year that experienced great demographic divide in the history of population?
Correct : B. 1921
48. Which of the following is the major concern about the study of population in a country?
Correct : B. characteristics of population
49. The time span for the official enumeration of population to carry out census?
Correct : B. 10 years
50. Sex ratio means……………
Correct : B. Number of females per thousand males
51. Most of the population theories have been emerged in which century?
Correct : A. Seventeenth
52. Which among the following States/Union Territories in India showed highest percentage
in decadal growth rate during the decade (2001- 2011)?
Correct : D. Dadra & Nagar Haveli
53. From which year ‘de facto’ enumeration was replaced by ‘de jure’ in the Indian Census?
Correct : B. 1941
54. During which period, India’s population marked negative growth rate?
Correct : B. 1911 – 21
55. According to the Census of India 2011, which among the following has shown lowest
density of population
Correct : B. Arunachal Pradesh
56. Information on which of the following topics is not provided by Indian Census?
Correct : C. Health Status of the Population
57. Which variable among the following is not social characteristic of the population?
Correct : D. Sex-composition
58. Which factors is not included in preparation of human development Index?
Correct : D. Nutritional status of children
59. Post neonatal mortality is
Correct : C. Probability of dying after first month and before the first birthday.
60. Identify the negative consequences of urban growth
Correct : D. All the above
61. Who was the exponent of optimum population theory ?
Correct : B. Edwin Cannan
62. Malthus‘s work is usually associated with the view that
Correct : B. Overpopulation will lead to social and political crisis.
63. 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.
64. The term “development”
Correct : C. Is change towards in a desired direction.
65. The major concern of social demography is the:
Correct : D. Study of size, composition and distribution of population at the present time
66. Dc-facto census method is related to:
Correct : B. Counting of the population according to where it is for a fortnight preceding the census.
67. If both fertility and mortality decline, then:
Correct : C. Proportion of dependent aged will increase
68. Largest component of internal migration in India is:
Correct : A. Rural urban migration
69. Who has said that ‘Democracy is concerned with the behavior or the aggregate and not with the
behavior of individual?’
Correct : D. W G Barclay
70. Who postulated that fertility increases in response to the progress of society?
Correct : A. Herbert Spencer
71. Identify the consequences of urbanisation
Correct : D. All the above
72. Which one amongst the following is not a indicator of social development?
Correct : D. Net Reproduction Rate
73. Which of the following is not a component of physical quality of Life Index?
Correct : D. Fertility
74. As per the National Population Policy of India, the long term objective is to achieve a
stable population by the year
Correct : D. 2045
75. Some salient features of a census are
1. Selectivity
2. Simultaneity
3. Universality
4. Periodicity
Find out the correct combination of answer according to the code:
Codes:
Correct : B. 2, 3 and 4 are correct.
76. With regard to Indian Census, which one is correctly matched?
Correct : A. Census of India Act: 1948
77. Which one of the following possesses dual recording system of vital events?
Correct : C. SRS
78. As per 2011 Census, effective literacy rate in India is about
Correct : A. 70 percent
79. Which of the following is not related to the study of fertility?
Correct : D. Child immunization
80. What is the correct number of questions in the household schedule (for population
enumeration) used in 2011 Census?
Correct : C. 29
81. Human population can:
Correct : D. not exist apart from social-cultural interaction
82. 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
83. Low birth rate and pregnancy wastage in the population are primarily due to:
Correct : A. traditional practices
84. Who gave the concept of social capillarity?
Correct : C. L Dumont
85. The term ‘political socialization’ was used by:
Correct : A. Herbert Hayman
86. The scientific study of population is known as ———————
Correct : B. Demography
87. Which is the pull factor of Migration?
Correct : D. Employment opportunities
88. is the median number of years a person can be expected to live under certain mortality
conditions
Correct : A. Life expectancy
89. 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
90. Is the state of a population where the number of births plus immigrants equals the number of
deaths plus emigrants?
Correct : B. Zero population growth
91. National Health Policy was adopted in India in which of the following years?
Correct : C. 1983
92. When was the National Forest Policy formulated for the first time in the independent
India?
Correct : A. 1952
93. NACO is an organisation which deals with which of the following health concerns?
Correct : A. HIV/AIDS
94. Which of the following services are not provided by the Anganwadi Centres?
Correct : D. Water and sanitation
95. As per the norms for the health facilities in India, what population size should be served
by a Primary Health Centre (PHC) in hilly and tribal areas?
Correct : A. 20,000
96. Nodal agency for Annual Health Survey (AHS) in India is
Correct : B. Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India
97. When Sample Registration System (SRS) was initiated on pilot basis by the Registrar
General of India?
Correct : C. 1964-65
98. During which Census information on Male age at marriage was introduced in India?
Correct : C. 2001
99. Which of the following country conducts Census at 5 years interval?
Correct : B. Canada
100. Which of the following is not included for the calculation of Human Development
Index?