On This Page
This set of Population and Society Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Population And Society Set 2
Q1 | Dc-facto census method is related to:
- counting of the population on the basis of its permanent residential status
- counting of the population according to where it is for a fortnight preceding the census’
- counting of the populating according to where it is on the night the census
- none of the above
Q2 | If both fertility and mortality decline, then:
- proportion of dependent children will increase
- proportion of active population will increase
- proportion of dependent aged will increase
- proportion of dependent aged will decrease
Q3 | Largest component of internal migration in India is:
- rural urban migration
- urban rural migration
- marriage migration
- rural migration
Q4 | Who has said that ‘Democracy is concerned with the behaviour or the aggregate andnot with the behaviour of individual’
- donald j bogue
- peter r cox
- h strenford
- w g barclay
Q5 | Who postulated that fertility increases in response to the progress of society?
- herbert spencer
- corrado gini
- e m hoover
- c p blacker
Q6 | Human population can:
- exist apart from cultural interaction
- exist a part from social interaction
- exist a part from social-cultural interaction
- not exist apart from social-cultural interaction
Q7 | When over a period of time, the death rate in society reduces due to overalldevelopments 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:
- demographic theory
- population explosion theory
- theory of demographic transition
- demographic explosion theory
Q8 | Low birth rate and pregnancy wastage in the population are primarily due to:
- traditional practices
- maternal malnutrition
- female illiteracy
- insufficient health care
Q9 | Who gave the concept of social capillarity?
- a bose
- l wirth
- l dumont
- r k mukherjee
Q10 | The term ‘political socialization’ was used by:
- herbert hayman
- herbert spencer
- almond powell
- easton and dannis
Q11 | Which is the pull factor of Migration?
- religious conversion
- natural calamities
- political disorder
- employment opportunities
Q12 | is the median number of years a person can be expected to live under certain mortalityconditions
- life expectancy
- mortality rate
- growth rate
- fertility rate
Q13 | A special type of bar chart that distributes the population by gender and age, and isgenerally used to illustrate the population structure of a society, is called a/an
- analysis of variance
- population pyramid
- chi-square
- multiple regression
Q14 | Is the state of a population where the number of births plus immigrants equals thenumber of deaths plus emigrants?
- demographic echo
- zero population growth
- rebound
- demographic transition