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Demography comes from the Greek demos, meaning people, and graphein, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →The first modern census was probably the American census of:Read the answer and worked solution →Regular decennial censuses in India have been conducted since:Read the answer and worked solution →Malthus outlined his pessimistic theory in his Essay on Population of:Read the answer and worked solution →According to Malthus, population grows in geometric progression while food grows in:Read the answer and worked solution →Malthus called famines and diseases that curb population:Read the answer and worked solution →The theory of demographic transition describes how many basic phases of population growth?Read the answer and worked solution →The birth rate is the number of live births per:Read the answer and worked solution →The fertility rate counts live births per 1000 women in the child-bearing age group of:Read the answer and worked solution →The infant mortality rate counts deaths of babies before the age of one year per:Read the answer and worked solution →The sex ratio in India is expressed as the number of females per:Read the answer and worked solution →Nature produces roughly how many female babies for every 1000 males?Read the answer and worked solution →The working age group used for the dependency ratio is generally:Read the answer and worked solution →India's population according to the Census of 2011 was:Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1911 and 1921 India's population showed negative growth because of the:Read the answer and worked solution →The influenza epidemic of 1918-19 killed about how many people in India?Read the answer and worked solution →India's annual population growth rate rose to what level during 1961-1981?Read the answer and worked solution →Birth and death rates in India began to diverge after the decade of:Read the answer and worked solution →Surat witnessed a small epidemic of plague in:Read the answer and worked solution →Amartya Sen showed famines were often caused by a failure of:Read the answer and worked solution →Which states had brought their total fertility rate down to 1.7 by 2016?Read the answer and worked solution →Like the East Asian economies earlier and which country today, India is said to enjoy a demographic dividend?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the demographic ratesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Malthus wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the population yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the demography wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Low or high fertilityRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the transition stagesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Demography bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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Demography comes from the Greek demos, meaning people, and graphein, meaning:

  1. Describe
  2. Measure
  3. Compare
  4. Collect
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Correct answer: A. Describe

1. Demography is the systematic study of population. 2. Graphein means describe. 3. It studies births, deaths, migration and composition. _Source: syllabus Indian Society, Chapter 2, The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society._

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The first modern census was probably the American census of:

  1. 1951
  2. 1790
  3. 1881
  4. 1867
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Correct answer: B. 1790

1. Europe took up the practice in the early 1800s. 2. The American census of 1790 was probably first. 3. India's censuses began under the British in 1867-72. _Source: syllabus Indian Society, Chapter 2, The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society._

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Regular decennial censuses in India have been conducted since:

  1. 1881
  2. 1867
  3. 1951
  4. 1901
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Correct answer: A. 1881

1. The first British counts came between 1867 and 1872. 2. Ten-yearly censuses run since 1881. 3. Independent India has held seven, the latest in 2011. _Source: syllabus Indian Society, Chapter 2, The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society._

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