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.Management Sciences
Category: Population Growth
While predictions are not always reliable sociologists and labor specialists foresee a workforce increasingly composed of_____________?
A. women
B. racial minorities
C. ethnic minorities
D. all of the above
The activity of measuring and explaining the size of populations is known as___________________?
A. Malthusianism
B. demography
C. forecasting
D. official statistics
It was estimated 148.72 million according to______________?
A. 2003 census
B. 2004 census
C. 2005 census
D. None of these
Which country is currently experiencing a negative birth-rate ?
A. China
B. Bangladesh
C. Iran
D. Tunisia
The demographic transition is social trend that involves____________?
A. a reduction in population size caused by a higher rate of emigration than immigration
B. a change in the principal causes of death and disease since industrialization
C. increased birth and death rates resulting in a relatively young population
D. a decline in the birth rate greater life expectancy and an ageing population
Our demographic situation provides us with an extraordinary opportunity we can_____________?
A. educate and use this resource
B. Send educated abroad
C. both a and b
D. None of these
Demographers who once believed that the U.S population would stabilize between 290 and 300 million people now believe that it will stabilize at around 390 million people because its________________?
A. overall birth-rate will increase significantly in the early part of the new century
B. life expectancy at birth will shortly increase to nearly 100 years of age
C. immigration rate is expected to remain high
D. all of the above
Pakistanis population was only_______ million at the time of Independence?
A. 33
B. 40
C. 25
D. None of these
What was the system of forced racial segregation in South Africa known as ____________?
A. apartheid
B. ethnic cleansing
C. multiculturalism
D. assimilation
In stage 3 of the health transition the main causes of illness and death are____________?
A. acute infectious diseases such as typhus measles and cholera
B. respiratory diseases such as pneumonia and asthma
C. chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer heart disease and strokes
D. too diverse to put into one category
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