Mention the factors responsible for the decline in the child sex ratio in India.
Factors responsible for the decline in sex ratio in India:
(i) Sex specific abortion - foeticide.
(ii) Female infanticide.
(iii) Preference for male child
(iv) Severe neglect of infants -girls.
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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