Demography test

Collection of assignments by discipline
"Demography"


Task 1.
Question 1. What does the concept of "revolution" mean in a broad sense?
1. coup;
2. a way of transition to a new stage of development;
3.resolving the crisis;
4. a qualitative shift in the development of the phenomenon, a break in the gradual development;
5. denial of the past.
Question 2. How is the quantitative demographic transition carried out for a long time?
1. gradually;
2. an evolutionary way of development;
3.jump;
4. in a revolutionary way;
5.spontaneously.
Question 3. What is the main problem in the concept of demographic revolutions:
1.allocation of the reproduction scheme;
2. highlighting general patterns, stages and sequence of population reproduction;
3.types of reproduction;
4. the logic of changing the types of reproduction;
5.forms of reproduction.
Question 4. What is the most common unit of time in demography:
1.generation length;
2.year;
3.month;
4. half a year;
5. quarter.
Question 5. How many years is the length of a generation - a unit of time in demography?
1.21-22 years old;
2.22-23 years old;
3.23-24 years old;
4.24-25 years old;
5.25-27 years.

Task 2.
Question 1. What is the period of action of the complex of "external disturbances" of demographic processes in the Russian Empire:
1.1917;
2. after 1917;
3.1919;
4.before 1917;
November 5.1918, XNUMX
Question 2. What is the period of action of the complex of "external disturbances" of demographic processes in the Russian Federation:
1.since 1990;
2.since 1991;
3.1992;
4.1993;
November 5.1994, XNUMX
Question 3. What is included in the concept of "external disturbances" of demographic processes?
1. fertility;
2.mortality;
3.war, socio-economic upheavals, famine, repression;
4.level of life;
5. Demographic waves.
Question 4. Who is the author of the classic work "Demographic Revolution"?
1.A. Landry;
2.E. Cole;
3.K. Blacker;
4.E. Hoover;
5.G. Schubnell.
Question 5. How many stages of development of the population identified A. Landry?
1.one;
2.two;
3.three;
4. four;
5.five.

Task 3.
Question 1. Name the three stages of population development according to A. Landry's concept:
1. primitive, intermediate, modern;
2. early, mature, late;
3.start, main, auxiliary;
4. primitive, mature, late;
5. early, primitive, basic.
Question 2. How many stages of development of the population, based on the rate of population growth, fertility and mortality, identified K. Blacker?
1.one;
2.two;
3.three;
4. four;
5.five.
Question 3. What is characteristic of the traditional type of population reproduction?
1. high rates;
2. weak pace;
3. unrestricted fertility and mortality;
4. unlimited mortality;
5. birth control.
Question 4. What preceded a qualitative leap in population reproduction?
1.restriction of fertility;
2. raising the standard of living;
3.decrease in living standards;
4. human intervention in natural processes of reproduction;
5. regulation of population growth.
Question 5. What is the main thing in the periodization of demographic processes?
1.analysis of statistical data;
2. highlighting a qualitative leap;
3. time estimation;
4. highlighting the system of characteristics of intensity;
5. Assessment of structural factors.

Task 4.
Question 1. What was the degree of influence of society on fertility at the first (traditional or primitive) stage of population development?
1.small;
2.great;
3.determining;
4.insufficient;
5. insignificant.
Question 2. How does society begin to influence morbidity, mortality at the second stage of population development?
1. not enough;
2. effective;
3. insignificantly;
4. is real;
5. is noticeable.
Question 3. What is the goal of the third stage of population development, to which society is only approaching:
1. planning the number of children;
2. planning all births;
3. complete regulation of fertility and mortality;
4.biological regulation;
5. planning the timing of the appearance of children.
Question 4. What is a feature of the demographic revolution?
1. interruption of gradualness;
2.resolving demographic problems;
3.spontaneity;
4.unpredictability;
5. irreversibility.
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