Demography

Question 1

What are the general trends in birth?

Answer 1

Birth rate decreasing
Fertility rate decreasing
Having fewer children
Having children later on in life

Question 2

What are the general trends regarding mortality?

Answer 2

Infant motality rate decreasing

Adult mortality rate decreasing

Question 3

What are the effects of an ageing population?

Answer 3

Increase in the dependency ratio (non working vs working people who provide support)
Burden of care - pressure on resources

Question 4

What did Hirsch say?

Answer 4

People will either have to wrk into their 60’s and 70’s or pay more taxes during their working life to contribute towards health and social care in later life. Single pensioners vs single young people (with less assets) - house prices rise.

Question 5

What did Townsend discover about poverty in old age?

Answer 5

Higher proportion of older people in poverty compared to young people

Question 6

How does increasing net migration effect society?

Answer 6

Impact of low fertility rates outweighed
Migrants decrease average age of country as they tend to be young and of working age
Decreases dependency ratio
Increase in multi-family households

Question 7

What does Eriksen argue about migrants in the globalised world?

Answer 7

Tend to form transnational identities - not belonging to a single country but a network of countries across the world. Less likely o assimilate because they don’t see it as their permanent home.