Top 50+ Solved Population and Society MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The time span for the official enumeration of population to carry out census?
a. 1 years
b. 10 years
c. 2 years
d. 5 years
Q. Sex ratio means……………
a. difference between birth rate and death rate
b. number of females per thousand males
c. number of females per hundred males
d. the study of population growth
Q. Who was the exponent of optimum population theory ?
a. malthus
b. edwin cannan
c. adam smith
d. amarthyasen
Q. Malthus ‘s work is usually associated with the view that
a. improved technology can overcome the problems of population growth.
b. overpopulation will lead to social and political crises.
c. morality and religious approaches are the most effective counter forces to overpopulation, not government policy.
d. all of the above.
Q. Demographic Transition Theory
a. was originally developed to explain population explosions in the third world.
b. explains population growth in industrializing societies in terms of a time lag between when people die and when their children or grand children are born.
c. explains population growth in industrializing societies in terms of a time lag between falling death rates and falling birth rates.
d. all of the above
Q. The term “development”
a. is useful because it is unambiguous – everyone understands what the word means.
b. is highly contested and embodies the politics of the user.
c. is change towards in a desired direction
d. all of the above
Q. The major concern of social demography is the:
a. contemporary problem of the relation of population trends to social and economic development
b. relationship between aggregate demographic nomena and regularities in other social and individual units of human behavior
c. analysis of how general, social and cultural factors
d. study of size, composition and distribution of population at the present time
Q. Dc-facto census method is related to:
a. counting of the population on the basis of its permanent residential status
b. counting of the population according to where it is for a fortnight preceding the census’
c. counting of the populating according to where it is on the night the census
d. none of the above
Q. If both fertility and mortality decline, then:
a. proportion of dependent children will increase
b. proportion of active population will increase
c. proportion of dependent aged will increase
d. proportion of dependent aged will decrease
Q. Largest component of internal migration in India is:
a. rural urban migration
b. urban rural migration
c. marriage migration
d. rural migration
Q. Who has said that ‘Democracy is concerned with the behaviour or the aggregate andnot with the behaviour of individual’
a. donald j bogue
b. peter r cox
c. h strenford
d. w g barclay
Q. Who postulated that fertility increases in response to the progress of society?
a. herbert spencer
b. corrado gini
c. e m hoover
d. c p blacker
Q. Human population can:
a. exist apart from cultural interaction
b. exist a part from social interaction
c. exist a part from social-cultural interaction
d. not exist apart from social-cultural interaction
Q. 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:
a. demographic theory
b. population explosion theory
c. theory of demographic transition
d. demographic explosion theory
Q. Low birth rate and pregnancy wastage in the population are primarily due to:
a. traditional practices
b. maternal malnutrition
c. female illiteracy
d. insufficient health care