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SCLY1 - Families and Households - Topic 4 - Demography. (AQA AS Sociology)

Pregunta 1 de 27

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Which term refers to the number of live births per 1000 of the population per year?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Birth Rate

  • Live births

  • Baby Number

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 27

1

There has been a long time ________________ in the number of births since 1900.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Decline

  • Increase

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 27

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In 1900 England and Wales had a Birth rate of _____. In 2007 it had a birth rate of ____.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 28.7 and 10.7

  • 30.5 and 25.8

  • 40.6 and 5.6

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 27

1

There were 2 baby booms after the 2 World Wars and and one in the 1960's.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 27

1

What is meant by the Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The average number of children women will have during her fertile years.

  • The number of live births per 1000 of the population per year

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 27

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The UK's total fertility rate has risen since 2001, from ______ in 2001 to _____ by 2006. However this is still much lower the peak of ____ in 1964.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1.63 1.84 and 2.95

  • 1.5, 2 and 4

  • 1, 3 and 4

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 27

1

These changes in fertility and birth rates reflect the fact that; More women are remaining childless than in the past and women are postponing having children for longer.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 27

1

There were major changes in the position of women during the 20th century and these have affected the changes in birth rates and fertility rates. They include;

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Legal equality with men, inc the right to vote

  • More women are in paid employment and there are now laws outlawing unequal pay and sex discrimination

  • Easier access to divorce

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 27

1

The infant mortality rate refers to the number of infants who die before their first birthday, per thousand babies born alive.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 27

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In 1900, what was the infant mortality rate?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 154

  • 145

  • 134

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 27

1

Which of these is not a reason for the decline in Infant mortality rate?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Improved housing and better sanitation

  • Better nutrition

  • Better hygiene knowledge

  • Improved services for mothers and children, such as antenatal and postnatal clinics

  • The rise in divorce rates

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 27

1

What the infant mortality rate in 2007?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 0

  • 5

  • 40

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 27

1

Which sociologist reject the view that falling infant mortality rates have led to a decrease in birth rates? They argue instead that the trend towards smaller families began not in rural areas where the IMR first began to fall but in, urban areas where IMR remained higher for longer.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Brass and Kabir (1978)

  • Tranter (1996)

  • McKeown (1972)

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 27

1

A reason for the decline in births is that children have become an economic liability.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 27

1

What is the projection of birth rates for the time period up to 2041 ?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 700,000 - 720,000

  • 600,000-650,000

  • 400,000- 460,000

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 27

1

The dependency ratio is the relationship between the size of the working/ productive part of the population and the size of the non-working or dependent part of the population. The earnings, savings and taxes of the working population must support the dependent population.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 27

1

The overall number of deaths has ________________ since 1900.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Remained fairly stable

  • Become unstable and fluctuates.

  • Has decreased sharply

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 27

1

The death rate refers to the number of deaths per thousand of the population per year. It has __________ since 1900.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • fallen

  • remained stable

  • increased

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 27

1

What was the death rate in 1900? And the death rate in 2007?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 19 and 10

  • 40 and 20

  • 100 and 20

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 27

1

According to ____________, over 3/4 of the decline in death rate is due to the fall in the number of deaths from infectious diseases such as diphtheria, influenza etc. Since deaths from infectious diseases were most common in the young it is not a surprise that most of the decline in death rate occurred among infants,children and young adults.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Tranter (1996)

  • Mckeown (1972)

  • Hirsch (2005)

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 27

1

According to _____________, improved nutrition accounted for up to half the reduction in death rates and was particularly important in reducing deaths from TB.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • McKeown (1972)

  • Hirsch (2005)

  • Brass and Kabir (1978)

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 27

1

Others have criticised Mckeown's view that improved nutrition reduced death rate from infectious diseases. They argue that it does not explain.................

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Why females lived longer than males.

  • Why deaths from some infectious diseases such as measles and infant diarrhoea rose at the time of improved nutrition.

  • Why divorce rates rose.

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 27

1

Which of these did not contribute to the fall of death rate?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Medical improvements

  • Public health measures

  • The decline of more dangerous manual occupations such as mining

  • Larger families reduced the rate of transmission of infection

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 27

1

Life expectancy refers to how long on average a person born in a given year can expect to live. Males born in England in 1900 could expect on average to live until they were 50 (57 for females). Males born in England in 2003-5 can expect to live for 76.9 years (81.2 for females)

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 27

1

Despite the overall reduction in the death rate and the increase in life expectancy over the last 100 years there are still important ___________________, _________________ and _____________ differences.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Gender, class and regional

  • Family, Social and Age

  • Medical, Public and Enviromental

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 27

1

From 1900 until the second world war which groups immigrated most to the UK?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Irish, Central European Jews and people of british descent from Canada and the USA

  • Caribbean, Jamaica, USA and Europe

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 27

1

By the 1950's, __________ immigrants began to arrive in the UK, followed during the 1960's and 70's by south asian immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and by East Africans from ______________ and _____________.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Black, Kenya and Uganda

  • American, Rwanda and Ethiopia

Explicación

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