UGC-NET (NTA) POPULATION STUDIES, June-2019

Total Questions: 100

1. Which among the following processes has resulted into population ageing?

Correct Answer: C. Increase in life expectancy

2. Which among the following provides the correct male-to-female ratio among the aged population?

Correct Answer: A. 45: 55

3. Which of the following is the decadal improvement in the projected life expectancy between 2000 and 2050?

Correct Answer: B. 2 years

4. What will be the size of the old population of the developing countries by 2025?

Correct Answer: С. 0.9 billion

5. Which among the following regions has lowest prevalence of widowhood?

Correct Answer: D. Latin America

6. Match the methods of appraisal and adjustment of demographic data given in ListI with the Authors/Agency, which developed the method given in List-II:

List-IList-II
(a) Preference of numerical digits(i) UN Index
(b) Heaping at age 0 and 5(ii) Myers’ Index
(c) Sex bias in age reporting(iii) Whipple’s Index
(d) Smoothing of single year age(iv) Zelnik’s method

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

(a)(b)(c)(d)
A(ii)(iii)(i)(iv)
B(iv)(ii)(iii)(i)
C(iii)(ii)(i)(iv)
D(iii)(iv)(i)(ii)
Correct Answer: A.

7. In which of the following years DLHS-3 was carried out?

Correct Answer: C. 2007-2008

8. Ideally, the denominator for computation of crude birth rate should be person-years lived in the year but we use average population of the year. Which one of the following is the correct reason?

Correct Answer: E. B,C

9. Which among the following options lists four fertility indicators-(a) Total Marital Fertility Rate (TMFR), (b) General Fertility Rate (GFR), (c) Crude Birth Rate (CBR), and (d) Total Fertility Rate (TFR) according to their robustness in measuring fertility (most sensitive to least sensitive)?

Correct Answer: A. TMFR, TFR, GFR, CBR

10. Societal differences are least prominent in:

Correct Answer: B. Miscarriages and foetal losses