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Class 12 Sociology Chapter 3 The Demographic Structure Of Indian Society Quiz 1 (25 MCQs)

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1. A potential economic boost associated with a shift from a population with a higher percentage of economically dependent people to a population with a higher percentage of economically productive people.
2. This statistic is calculated by dividing the number of economically dependent people (younger than age 15 and older than age 65) by the number of working age people (ages 15 to 64) and multiplying by 100:
3. Stage 4 of the demographic transition model is characterized by
4. Thomas Malthus suggested that capitalism was the only economic system that could function.
5. Which of the following cannot determine population size
6. The four varna levels gradually divided into thousands of smaller groups known as jati. These were based on the type of work a person did. Jati and Caste refer to the same ..... system in India.
7. When the crude birth rate is higher than the crude death rate, the difference between the two is called the
8. Which of the following is not a qualitative aspect of demography?
9. During the Emergency, government tried to intensify the effort to bring down the growth rate of population by:
10. What are the two types of demography?
11. The Vaisyas (VYSH * yuhs), or commoners were usually .....
12. ' Failure of entitlement ' suggest that:
13. Population explosion is a part of which stage of demographic transition?
14. India's family planning programme was launched in the year
15. As per Malthus food supply increase in the following manner-
16. Which of the following is not a reason for decline in child sex ratio:
17. Life expectance is the number of years that new born babies are expected to live on average
18. The change from high fertility and high mortality to low fertility and low mortality as a country develops economically is referred to as the:
19. Malthusian theory states that population increases as per the following trend .....
20. The procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population is called
21. The dependency ratio shows demographers
22. Malthus argued that food supply can only increase .....
23. Which is not a preventative check that affect birth rate?
24. At the lowest level of society were the Untouchables. They were also called the Outcastes because they were not even part of the jati or caste system. They .....
25. The state with the TFR below replacement level is:
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