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Friday, July 12, 2019

EPH - Unit 2 - Part 1 - Demography and Measures of Fertility

Unit 2: Demography, Population Change and Management
Objectives
      To know types and number of questions to be asked from this unit.
      Topics Review and discussion.
      Some sampled very short questions solved.
      Some sampled short questions solved.
      Some sampled long questions solved
Some Terminologies and Organizations Working With Environment
      WHO = World Health Organizations
      UNESCO = United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
      UNO = United Nations Organization
      GDP = Gross Domestic Product
      PCI = Per Capita Income
      HPE = Health, Population and Environment
      BC = Before Christ
      AD = Anno Domini
      UNFPA = United Nations Fund for Population Activities
      CBS = Central Bureau of Statistics
Questions types to be asked from this unit
·       1 Very Short Question (Application Type)
·       1 Short Question (Application Type)
·       1 Long Question (Understanding Type)
Introduction of Demography
      Population is the total number of people residing within a certain geographical area and within a certain time period.
      Demography consists two Greek words: ‘Demos means people’ and ‘Graphia means to study’.
      Demography word was first time used by Achille Guillard in 1855AD his book ‘The Comparative Demography’.  
      The Scientific and well managed study of human population is known as Demography.
      The study of demography was initiated by John Graunt in 1662 in his book ‘The Natural Political Observation Made upon the Bills of Mortality’.
      So, John Graunt is also known as ‘Father of Demography’.
      Population is a dynamic process.
      It continuously changes due to its components: birth, death and migration.
      Birth and death are natural and migration is artificial.
      The components, Process and Measures are given below:
Components
Process
Measures
Birth
Fertility
Fertility Rate
Death
Mortality
Mortality Rate
Migration
Migration
Migration Rate

Demographic Components
      The components which cause the changes in the population of the certain places are known as demographic components. These are birth, death and migration.
      These are also called as population determinants.
      Birth and inward migration causes increase in the population and death and outward migration causes decrease in the population.
      Demographic components refer to the quantitative (numerical) analysis.
Demographic Processes
      Fertility, Mortality and Migration refer to the demographic process.
      These represent how demographic events take place.
      Process of birth are discussed in fertility.
      Process of death are discussed in mortality.
      Process of migration are discussed in migration.
Demographic Measurements
      Different types of demographic indicators are needed to different demographic analysis.
      Demographic components give quantitative statistical information of demographic factors.
       So, Mathematical study of demographic factors resulting in certain rate and ratio is called demographic measurements
      Fertility Rate, Mortality Rate and Migration Rate are major demographic measurements.
Sampled Very Short Questions
      When was Demography study started? (in 1662 AD by John Graunt.)
      What is meant by demography?
      When did the population of world reach7 billion? (on October 31st, 2011)
      What was the total population of Nepal according to the first census? (56,38,749; in 1911AD)
      When was the first census taken in Nepal? (1911 AD., 1968 BS.)
      How  many census have been conducted in Nepal till now? (11)
      Write any one census year when the population growth rate was negative? ( in 1920AD it was -0.13),(in 1930AD it was -0.07)
      Define census.
      What is the meaning of Demos and Graphian?
Measures of Fertility
      Fertility is the capacity of women of age group 15-49 years to give birth to a baby.
      Fertility does not indicate the fecundity.
      Reproductive capacity of any organisms is fecundity.
      Reproductive capacity of a woman starts with menarche and stops with menopause.
      If a woman is unable to give birth a baby, then she is called in-fecund or sterile woman.
Differentiate between Fertility and Fecundity. (Short Question)
S.N.
Fertility
Fecundity
1.
It is directly related to giving birth to a baby.
It is physical ability to give a birth to a baby.
2.
It belongs to only females.
It belongs both males and females.
3.
It starts only with conception.
It starts along with puberty.
4.
It has direct role on population growth.
Ii is directly related to the population growth.


Mid Year Population
      Mid year population is an average of the population of on the first day and the last day of a year of some certain place.
      It is required for demographic measurements.
      Mathematically, Mid Year Population = (PJan 1 + PDec 31)/2
      Where, PJan 1 = Population on 1st January and PDec 31 = population on 31st December.
Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
      CBR is the total number of live births in every thousand population in the certain place within a specific year.
      It can not be used for comparative study of fertility.
      Formula; CBR = (B/P)X1000
      Where, B = total no. of live births in a year in a certain place and
      P = Mid year population of the same year in that area.
      According to the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2068 BS, the CBR of Nepal is 24.3 per thousand.
General Fertility Rate (GFR)
      GFR is  the total number of live births occurring in per thousand female population with fecundity in a place within a year.
      It is more reliable than CBR.
      According to survey of 2068 B.S., GFR of Nepal is 96 per thousand.
      Formula; GFR = (B/Pf(15-49 )X1000
      Where, B = total live births in a year and
      Pf(15-49 = mid year female population of the fertile age group.
Age Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR)
      Age specific fertility rate is the  total number of live births occurring in per thousand population of females of a certain age of age group having fecundity at a place in a year.
      It is more acceptable that CBR and GFR.
      In the context of Nepal, women of age group 20-30 are found to have the most age specific fertility rate.
      Formula; ASFR = ( Bi/Pi)X1000
      Where, Bi = Total live births from a certain age group of women in a year
      Pi  = Mid Year population of the same age group of women in the same year.
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
      TFR is the average number of live births that a woman of a particular place gives in her reproductive age.
      It is more reliable than other measures of fertility.
      If the TFR of a nation is less than 2.1 per woman, the population remains constant.
      If it is greater than 3, the population is said to have increased.
      According to  Nepal Demography and Health Survey 2011, the TFR of Nepal is 2.6 per woman.
      It was 1.6 per woman  in urban areas.
      It was 2.8 per woman in rural areas.
      Formula; TFR = (ƩASFR/1000)X Age interval
      Where, ƩASFR = sum of the age specific fertility rates
      Age interval = the duration of 5 years.
Sampled Very Short Questions
      What would be the Crude Birth Rate of a place if the mid-year population is 2,50,000 and total live births are 3,000? (Ans:12 per thousands)
      Define CBR and write its formula.
      Define GFR and how is it calculated?
      Define ASFR and write its formula.
      Define TFR and write its formula.
      What are the data required to calculate TFR?
      What are the data required to calculate GFR?
Sampled Short Questions
      What is demography? Write down the components and process of demography.
      Describe the demographic components with example.
      What is demographic process? Write in brief.
      Explain the demographic elements briefly after the prepared demographic table.
      Suppose in a certain place, total population was 9,600 in 2074 B.S. In the same year, the number of live birth and death were 650 and 455 respectively. Calculate the crude birth rate. (67.70 per thousand)
      Define Crude Birth Rate. Calculate the crude birth rate of certain place of 2072 B.S. if it had 5,680 as mid year population and 196 as live births of infants. (34.50 per thousand)
      The population of first Baisakh and last Chaitra 2071 in a village was 6,00,908 and 5,99,207. If the number of births was 1,87,500 ; what was the crude birth rate of the village? (312.47 per thousand)
      In 2072 B.S. in a place there was the population of 4,000 of women of the age group 15-49 and in the same year the number of live birth was 110. Calculate General Fertility rate of the place. (20 per thousand)
      The women of one of the places of age group 30-35 years gave birth to 5600 live births in 2067 B.S. If the number of such women was 1,20,000; find the age specific fertility rate  of the place.(46.33per thousand)
      Thank you and to be continued in part 2…



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