Demography

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The Definition of Demography?
The study of populations and their characteristics – Quantitative view
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What are the 4 main factors that influence population?
Births, Deaths, Immigration, Emigration
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The Definition of Birth Rate?
The concept sociologists use measure births and the number of live births per thousand of the population per year
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The 2 Factors that determine Birth Rate?
Proportion of women of child bearing age 15-44 and how fertile they are.
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Definition of Total Fertility Rate?
The average number of children a woman will have during her fertile years
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The Reasons for the Decline in Birth Rate?
Change in women’s position, Decline in infant mortality rate, Children are now an economic liability, Child centeredness
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3 Ways Women's position has changed?
Any From:Legal equality with men like the right to vote, Increased educational opportunities, More women in paid employment plus laws outlawing unequal pay and sex discrimination, Changes in attitudes to the women’s role, Easier to divorce, Access to abor
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Who suggested that the education of women is the most important reason for the long-term fall in birth and fertility rates?
Sarah Harper (2012)
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Definition of Infant Mortality Rate? (IMR)
It measures the number of children who die before their first birthday per thousand babies born alive, per year
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What did Harper (2012) say that described how IMR affects the Decline in Birth Rate?
She said if infants die, parents have more children to replace those they have lost which increases the birth rate and if infants survive, the parents will have fewer.
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Why did the IMR fall in the 20th Century?
Any From: Improved housing and better sanitation like flush toilets and clean drinking water and reduced infectious disease, Better knowledge of hygiene, child health and welfare spread through media, A fall in the number of married women working have imp
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What 3 laws were created which caused Children to economically depend on Their Parents?
Banning child labour, introducing compulsory schooling and raising the school leaving age
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What has the increase of Child-Centredness encourage?
a shift from quantity to quality and parents now have fewer children and give more attention to the few they have.
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Births, Deaths, Immigration, Emigration

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Definition of Total Fertility Rate?

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