Families and households: Demography
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- Created on: 09-05-16 20:10
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- Demography
- Births
- Birth rate
- The number of births per 1,000 of the population per year.
- Reasons for the fall
- A long-term decline in the birth rate since 1900
- Changes in the position of woman
- More women at work
- changes in attitudes towards family life
- Access to abortion and contraception
- Fall in infant mortality rate
- 'Improved housing, sanitation etc.
- Children are an economic liability-cant afford to have a large family
- Reasons for the fall
- A long-term decline in the birth rate since 1900
- Fluctations after the world wars
- The number of births per 1,000 of the population per year.
- Total fertility rate
- More women remain childless nowadays and women are having children later
- The average number of children a woman will have during her fertility years
- Birth rate
- The ageing population
- The number of over 65's equals the amount of u15's
- Increased life expectancy
- Declining fertility
- Low infant mortality
- Effects of an ageing population
- Rising dependency ratio
- Working age people must provide for the older people through taxes etc.
- Public services
- Older people consume more health and social care services.
- More one-person households
- Now account for 1/7 households.
- Ageism
- Negative stereotyping sees older people as a burden
- Rising dependency ratio
- The number of over 65's equals the amount of u15's
- Deaths
- Number of deaths
- Around 600,000 per year reamins fairly stable
- Death rate
- Number of death per 1,000
- Reasons for the fall in death rate
- Improved nutrition
- Medical improvements
- Public health improvements
- Increase in life expectancy (Around 90/94)
- Reasons for the fall in death rate
- Halved from 19 in 1900
- Reasons for the fall in death rate
- Improved nutrition
- Medical improvements
- Public health improvements
- Increase in life expectancy (Around 90/94)
- Reasons for the fall in death rate
- Number of death per 1,000
- Number of deaths
- Ageism
- Those excluded from production have a dependent status and stigmatised identity.
- Inequality among the old
- Middle class have bigger pensions.
- Womens lower earnings and roles as carers mean lower pensions.
- Migration
- Immigration
- Minority ethnic groups acoount for 14% of the population
- Emigration
- Most emigrants go to USA,Canada or Australia
- Push factor: Economic recession
- Piull factor:Higher wages and better opportunities
- Differentiation
- Citizens have full rights
- Denizens are priveleged foreigh nationals
- Helots are disposable labour power
- Migration and politics
- Assimilationism encourages migrants to adopt culture
- Multiculturaism accepts migrants seperate cultural identity
- Immigration
- Births
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