Exam 16: Demography and Urbanization

Two simple measures, the ________ and the ________, have been devised by demographers to help us understand the rate of population growth.

Three Canadian cities -Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver - account for approximately ________ of the national population.

The crude birth rate in the world today is approximately twenty-four per thousand, while the crude death rate is only nine per thousand. The fifteen persons per thousand difference between these two rates is a measure of how fast the population is growing per year, and is known as the rate of:

The essential prerequisite for the growth of cities is society's:

Today, about two-thirds of the world's urban population lives in:

The approach which tracks groups of individual based upon their year or period of birth is known as the:

What is the dependency ratio? Why will dependency become a serious issue in Canada in the next few decades?

Approximately 60% of recent (2001) immigrants to Canada report that they hope to settle in Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal despite government initiatives to attract immigrants to less-populated regions of the country.

Demography is the study of ________; it examines how the size, structure, and rate of growth are affected by rates of fertility, mortality, and migration.

Malthus believed that population growth was a major problem and could only be contained by negative checks like war, famine and disease.

How is the pattern of urbanization in Canada different from that observed in developing countries?

The ________ is a picture or graphic representation of the composition of a population at a particular point in time.

Lack of access to contraception and cultural factors contribute to the persistence of high fertility.

Using examples show the difference between the total fertility rate, and the age-specific fertility rate.

In Thomas Malthus' view, human nature is marked by two basic needs or drives: the need to eat, and what he termed "the passion between the sexes." As a result, he argued an increase in the supply of food can produce only a temporary improvement in the standard of living, because it also produces an increase in population size, which then eats up any increase in food. The growth of population can only be stopped by what he termed ________ checks to the population, e.g. war, famine, and disease.

The lowest levels of life expectancy tend to be found in the less developed societies of sub-Saharan Africa, where life expectancies below age ________ years are not uncommon. This is partially attributable to the AIDS epidemic.

An economist, Easterlin argued that it is an advantage to be born into a:

Marriage patterns, breastfeeding practices, contraceptive use, and abortion are four very important and measurable factors explaining variations in fertility across time and among societies. Demographers commonly refer to them as proximate determinants because they act directly on fertility.

Factors such as maternal level of education and income ________ affect the number of children families have.

The crude birth rate is calculated by dividing the number of deaths occurring in a population in a given period of time (usually one year) by the total size of the population, and expressed per thousand population.