Demography test

Task 1.
Question 1. What does the concept of "revolution" mean in a broad sense?
1. coup;
2. a way to move to a new stage of development;
3. resolution of the crisis;
4. a qualitative shift in the development of the phenomenon, a break in gradual development;
5. denial of the past.
Question 2. How is the quantitative demographic transition carried out for a long time?
1. gradually;
2. evolutionary way of development;
3. jumpwise;
4. in a revolutionary way;
5. spontaneously.
Question 3. What is the main problem in the concept of demographic revolutions:
1. highlighting 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 years old;
2-22 years old;
3-23 years old;
4. 24-25 years old;
5. 25-27 years old.

Task 2.
Question 1. What is the period of action of the complex of "external disturbances" of demographic processes in the Russian Empire:
1 g .;
2. after 1917;
3 g .;
4.before 1917;
5 g.
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 g .;
4 g .;
5 g.
Question 3. What is included in the concept of "external disturbances" of demographic processes?
1. fertility;
2. mortality;
3. wars, socio-economic upheavals, famine, repression;
4. standard of living;
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. birth control;
2. raising the standard of living;
3. lower living standards;
4. human intervention in natural reproduction processes;
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. real;
5. noticeably.
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. resolution of demographic problems;
3.spontaneity