Sociology - demography Flashcards
What is the total fertility rate?
The total fertility rate is the average number of children will have during fertile years.
Name some reasons for the decline in birth rate?
- changes to women’s position (womens allowed to vote, both traditional and working women)
- decline in infant mortality rate .
- child centeredness
and child are economic liability
how does this affect the future in terms of polices.
- in polices, dependency ratio and increase in child centeredness.
- impact of ageining population
what are some of the reasons to the decline in death
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tranter
HARPER
according to TRANTER about ¾ of deaths was because of the reduction of infectious diseases several reasons to why this may occur
improved nutruon - mckrowen stated that improved nurtion helped decrease serious diseases
life expecntency
smoking and diet
What is the three factors of the ageining population?
The aging population is caused by three factors; increasing life expectancy, declining infant mortality, declining fertility.
what are the things embeded in the ageining population?
public services- older people consume larger part of the healthcare services.
one person household 1 in 8 peole live alone
depdency ratio
and ageisim
what is structured dependency?
the large are excluded from work
what does migration mean
what does immigration mean?
net migrants
movement of people in and out of the country
movement out of the country
difference in immigrants and emigrants
who was the highest migration group
what was the reasons
from 1900 it was Irish
it was ethnically diverse society
what are push and pull factors?
what is the impact
push factor- economic reasons and pull factors- higher wages and opportunities
Natural increase with births exceeding deaths.
what is globalisation in migration
Is the idea that the barriers between societies disappearing and people being increasingly interconnected across boundaries
what is acceleration?
what is the differentiation?
spreading up the rate of migration for example according to un between 2020 and 2013 international migration increased by 33%.
types of migrants including permeant settlers
