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1
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What is the de facto method of census taking?

A

Everyone in the country at the time, even if not citizens, including tourists

2
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What is the de jure method of census taking?

A

Those who legally belong to a given area, regardless of location on census day

3
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What is the usual method of census taking?

A

Consider where one usually sleeps (such as on campus), homeless people and migrant workers are counted where they are found, omit tourists and foreign business people

4
Q

How to calculate dependency ratio

A

Number of persons who are of working age
x100

5
Q

How to calculate sex ratio

A
Number of Males
------------------------------
Number of Females
x100
Average is 102 to 106
6
Q

Crude birth rate calculation and disadvantages

A

Midyear Population
x1000

Ignores who’s at risk of having births
Ignores the age structure in the population

7
Q

Age-specific fertility rate calculation, advantage, and disadvantage

A

(Total women aged x to (x+5))
x 1000

Advantage: incorporates age structure
Disadvantage: awkward for comparing entire populations

8
Q

Total fertility rate calculation, advantages

A

1000

Advantages: Easily interpreted, easy to compare across populations

9
Q

What is replacement TFR?

A

2.1

10
Q

What does infecund mean?

A

Infertile

11
Q

What is the average fertility for natural fertility areas?

A

6.1

12
Q

What is the TFR in the US?

A

1.8

13
Q

What are the points of demographic transition theory?

A

Industrialization, modernization, urbanization, and changing women’s roles and decreasing fertility

14
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What are the points of Davis’ theory?

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o Poor: have many kids because it is rational – need labor, old age security, etc.
o Better off: Kids expensive, so rational to have fewer

15
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What are the points of Easterlin’s theory?

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The standard of living you experience in late childhood will influence your willingness to have kids

16
Q

What is the difference between lifespan and longevity?

A
  • Lifespan: “finitude of life” – the oldest age to which a person can survive, Entirely biological, Kane Tanaka is oldest currently at 116
  • Longevity: average length of life, Both biological and social
17
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What are types of causes of death?

A
  • Chronic Diseases (degeneration)
  • Communicable Diseases
  • Products of the social and economic environment
18
Q

How to calculate Crude Death Rate

A

midyear population in a year
x 1000

19
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How to calculate Age Specific Death Rate

A

average number of people aged x to (x+t)
x 1000

20
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How to calculate Infant Mortality Rate

A

number of live births in a year
x1000

21
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What is life expectancy?

A

The number of years a hypothetical person born in a year could expect to live, if he/she experienced the age/sex specific death rates observed in that year

22
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What is the Epidemiological Transition?

A

Moving from very high to very low mortality rates, Switch in main cause of death from communicable diseases to degenerative diseases