Practice Quiz Chapter 04

. According to the 2016 Census, which following provinces have the oldest populations?

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

Alberta

The three Territories

Ontario, British Columbia, and Manitoba

. What is demography?

The study of why and how populations change due to the interrelationship between gender, income, and ethnicity

The study of why and how graphs demonstrate the changing population age pyramids

The study of why and how populations change over time and becoming smaller, larger, or older due to the interrelationship among fertility, mortality, and migration patterns

The study of why and how populations age over time

. What are the four stages of a demographic transition?

Growth, decreased mortality, out migration, and urbanization

Explosion, implosion, displosion, and technoplosion

Boom, bust, echo, and disco

Improvements in public health, individual health and longevity, work and leisure lifestyles, and quality of life.

. What are the three principal characteristics of a generation?

Similar taste in music, fashion, and politics

Employment, fertility rates, and pop culture

Baby boomers, generation X, and millennials

A set of individual birth cohorts; individuals who share particular life experiences at a particular stage in their life course; and typically exhibits characteristics that distinguish them from other generations

. In 2002, what word was NOT used to describe population aging in the United Nations Second World Assembly on Ageing report?

Unprecedented

Predictable

Pervasive

Profound

. Which of the following is NOT a reason to be optimistic about global aging and economic performance?

Declining fertility rates will continue to lead to greater female participation in the labour market.

Fewer children generally means healthier, smarter, and better-educated children.

Increased longevity is expected to increase saving rates as people accumulate more capital to support them in retirement longer.

Opportunities will decrease for young people with high unemployment rates among this cohort.

. Which of the following is NOT a common demographic indicator used to show past trends, the current situation, and projections for the future as well as compare different countries or parts of countries?

Median age

Life expectancy

Utilization rates

Birth and death rates

. What was the Canadian average life expectancy at birth in 2015?

Women was 83 years and men 79 years.

Women was 94 years and men was 92 years.

Women was 79 years and men 83 years.

It was the same for women and men at around 81 years.

. What is the natural replacement rate to ensure population growth?

5 births per woman

7.6 births per woman

1.6 births per woman

2.1 births per woman

. According to the 2016 Census, where did 70 per cent of immigrants settle in the previous five years?

Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec

Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver

Halifax, Quebec City, and Vancouver

Calgary, Windsor, and Saskatoon

. It is projected that the population aged 65 and over will increase from about 617 million worldwide in 2015 to over 2 billion by 2050 with about three-quarters living in developing regions.

True

False

. An epidemiological transition is a shift in the leading cause of death in a nation from chronic and degenerative diseases to infectious, parasitic, and acute illnesses.

True

False

. Rapidly aging populations require significant adaptation of society and can lead to insurmountable crises.

True

False

. Those under age 80 constitute the fastest-growing segment of the world population.

True

False

. Active life expectancy assesses the quantity of life more than the quality of life.

True

False

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