1) What is the difference between fertility and fecundity?
2) Why is the crude birth rate sometimes misleading?
3) Discuss the scenario when the population pyramid of a country has a broad
base and tapering apex.
4) list some of the factors responsible for health inequalities in Pakistan.
5) Define the term ‘total fertility rate’
6) Name the factors that lead to high fertility rate in developing countries.
7) Name the five processes which determine population size, its composition
and distribution.
8) What is the relevance of the discipline of demography to public health
practitioners?
9) Name the factors that have led to the dramatic decline of maternal mortality
in Western Europe.
10) What do you understand by the term ‘life expectancy at birth’?
11) Define the term ‘demographic transition’.
12) Define the term ‘epidemiological transition’.
13) Describe the three periods of epidemiological transition
14) Name some of the possible explanations for inequalities in health
across population subgroups such as social class.
15) Explain in brief the relationship between demography and other
disciplines.
16) Define Census? Discuss the importance of population census
17) What is de jure and de facto method of population counting?
18) What are the two ways of studying fertility? (There are two ways of
studying fertility. Micro fertility analysis refers to the fertility of individual
women (and man). Rather than studying the fertility of persons, macro
fertility analysis studies the fertility of population)
19) How do developed countries provide social security to its population?
(Developed countries try to provide social security to the population by
providing old age pension, health insurance and child care and maternity
centres, and so on.)
20) ‘Demography today neither be ignored by the planners, nor
policymakers, nor administrators, nor by academicians and politicians.’
Elucidate.
21) What are the different phases of demography?
22) List the four important and broad heading under which demography
can be studied.
23) Write a short note on how the preference for male child affects the
birth rate.
24) Explain the important aspects of population studies.
25) Discuss the advantages of population studies.
26) Describe the social and economic factors affecting high birth rate.
27) Examine the role of mortality rate, marriages and migration in the
increase of population
28) List some of the factors which are influenced by fundamental aspects
of human societies.
29) Mention the total fertility rate which ensures a broadly stable
population.
30) What are the epidemiologic transitions of developing nations tied to?
31) Mention the equation which explains the change in closed population.
32) What is the meaning of natural increase in population?
33) What are the factors responsible for the difference between biological
potential and realized fertility?
34) List the purposes of the practice of infanticide.
35) What are the preliminary steps that are undertaken before the census
operation are actually carried out?
36) In which census method is every person in an area personally counted
and information obtained from him?
Differentiate the census and registration system of collecting population
data.
What are the advantages of sampling survey?
Write a short note on population registers.
Critically analyse the vital registration method of collection of population
data.
