Demographic Techniques (GPLA2205)

BA. Geography and Planning - GP

Semester: Second Semester

Level: 200

Year: 2018

Answers (200 )
REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON The UNIVERSITY OF
BAMENDA j
Peace - Work - Fatherland P.0. BOX 39 Bambili
School:
FACULTY OF ARTS
Department: Geography
&
Planning
Lecturer(s): Pr. Fombe /Mrs. Muma M.
Course Code: GPLA2205 Course Title: Demographic Techniques
Date: 11/07/18 Hall: SOA 7/8 Time: 8.30-11.30am
INSTRUCTIONS: ANSWER ALL THREE QUESTIONS.
1
. (a) Name
2
accurate measures of fertility (
2
mks)
(b) Name two accurate measures of mortality (2mks)
(c) Immigration is movement from rural to urban areas for a period greater than a year.
Tue or False? (1mk)
(d) Table 1 illustrates the Birth and death rates for selected countries of Africa. Calculate and state the
missing rates (in the shaded rows). (
2
mks)
Table 1. Mortality and fertility rates for selected countries of Africa (
0
/
00
)
Country
Birth Rate
Death Rate
Growth Rate
Algeria
22.3
5.2
Cameroon
35.7
25.4
Chad
15.1
32.
6
Nigeria
392
14.1
(e) State the formula for obtaining Infant mortality rate (IMR)(2mks)
(f) Briefly explain why crude measures are not very useful -in analyzing a country’s rate of death or
births? (2.5mks)
(g) Name the 7 cohorts of women of the reproductive age group? (3.5mks)
(h) Name two endogenous and two exogenous causes of infant mortality (4mks)
(i) Pandemics are diseases that affect mostly the young while infectious diseases affect only the old.
True or False? (3mks)
(j) Name the three growth scenarios for which a population projection can be made. (3mks).
(k) Name two importance for projecting a country’s or region’s population. (2mks)
(l) Name the three years during which Cameroon conducted its national population censuses after
independence. (3mks). (30mks)
2. Using the formula Pi = P
o
* (1 + r)
n
Project the population of a hypothetical region to 2020 and then to 2022 using the following data;
Growth rate = 0.6%; Population: 2012 = 8,000,000; 2016 = 8,200,000. Show clearly your workings.
(
20
mks)
3. (a) Give 4 advantages of a population census. (6 marks)
(b) Despite the advantages of a population census, explain why some countries, often find it difficult to
regularly carry out this indispensible exercise. (6 marks)
(c) Explain the following demographic expressions
(i) Post-enumeration survey (3 marks)
(ii) Fertility (4 marks)
(iii) De facto population census (4marks)
(iv) Sample Survey (3marks)
(d) State five different ways by which the population could be informed on an eminent national population
census. (5 marks)
(e) State four reasons why the population might not want to participate in a population census.(4 marks)
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