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The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society
What do you understand by demography?
It is a systematic study of population. The term demography is composed of two Greek words, i.e. demos (people) and graphein (describe) viz. describing number of people in a specified time-period in a territory/location or simply, description of people. It studies changes in—(i) Population size, (ii) Patterns of births, (iii) Deaths, (iv) Migration, (v) Structure and composition of the population E.g. relative proportion of women, men and different age groups.
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During which time-period census began in India?
From which year decennial censuses are being conducted in a regular manner in India?
For what purposes the importance of demographic data is much greater?
What does Emile Durkheim state in a report after survey of different countries in the world?
Why is distinction made between formal and social demography?
What problems have in India because of over-population?
Who was Thomas Robert Malthus and why is he famous?
What does Malthus write in an essay on the principle of population, 1798 CE?
What are the chief characteristics of Malthusian theory of population growth?
How were Malthus's predictions proved false by the end of the first quarter of the twentieth century in Europe?
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