Let us leave the contemporary scene for a while and dwell on the desirability and prospects of wider acceptance of the small family norm. In our kind of poverty, any social or economic improvement, however small, particularly at the lower levels, is fraught with pronatalist consequences, at least in the short run, until a threshold is reached where elasticity of demand for children may begin to decline and an anti-natalist trend may set in. An improvement in the level of education, even the attainment of literacy, or rise in income, or a job of supposedly higher status or security, even migration from rural to urban, or even plain job mobility suggestive of improvement, not to speak of real improvement, however small, in housing, consumption, education, employment, social and economic status, expands the horizon of expectations. It extends the span of useful effort and accumulation of personal wealth. All this invites investment by way of a fresh addition to the family to whom these benefits can be passed on so they can yield better returns when the child grows better equipped to manhood. Enterprise being seen by an Indian as centred on the household, anything that goes to enhance the wealth of the household is well worth investigating in. And what can be of more enduring value to a household than another child who can give the highest over-life-time return on that education to that household of which the head had been deprived in his childhood and for which he had suffered At the national level, the desirability of a sharp reduction in the birth rate, with a matching reduction in the death rate is all too evident. The end, expressed in the form of phased targets of reduction of the birth rate, would justify the judicious adoption of incentives and disincentives both for State and personal effort, of the kind adumbrated in the Population Policy.

1. What do you deduce about the 'small family norm' from the passage

2. Explain "Wealth of the household".

3. What do you understand by 'elasticity of demand for children'

4. Explain 'Pronatalistic consequences of economic development'.

5. Comment on 'anti-natalist' trend.

6. Distinguish between Census and Sample Surveys.

7. Distinguish between population estimates and population projection.

8. What do you mean by age-sex structure of a population

9. What is post-partum amenorrhoea What are the determinants of post-partum amenorrhoea

10. Define Reproductive Health.

11. What is the definition of a town according to Census of India

12. Differentiate between Arithmetic Progression and Geometrical Progression.

13. What is the meaning of 'ecological imbalance'

14. Examine the linkage between gender and migration.

15. Define population policy.

16. Give the characteristics of Hexagonal model of settlement distribution.

17. Differentiate between main worker and marginal worker.

18. What are the implications of population growth on sanitation

19. What are the health impacts of water pollution

20. What are the objectives of National Rural Health Mission

21. Explain GRR and NRR. What interpretation be made if NRR 1 or 1

22. Give a procedure to compute singulate mean age at marriage.

23. Discuss component method of population projection.

24. Discuss various measures of fertility along with their merits and demerits.

25. Write a note on the Model Life Table. Give its uses.

21. Discuss various measures of population density.

22. Discuss various determinants and consequences of internal migration.

23. Give a typology of the external forms of rural settlements with suitable interpretation.

24. Write a note on the characteristics of the tributary area of a central place.

25. Underline the population response to natural and human disasters.

21. Population and economic development should be complementary and not competitive.

22. Critically analyse the concept of 'Place « Work « Folk' in the context of 'Environment « Development « Population'.

23. Discuss the merits and limitations of Human Development Index as a measure of poverty and socio-economic development.

24. Comment on the views of Coale and Hoover and Estner Boserup on the relationship between population growth and economic development.

25. Quality of housing under different environment is an important indicator of development. Comment.

21. State the background for the adoption of "Reproductive and Child Health Approach" to the Family Welfare Programme. Explain the package of services offered under

22. Discuss the services offered for child survival and safe motherhood under Reproductive and Child Health Programme.

23. Why is sharp decline noted in Vasectomies compared to tubectomies during the last few decades Explain.

24. What are the socio-demographic goals set for 2010 in the National Population Policy 2000 How far these goals are achieved

25. Critically analyse the merits and limitations of target free approach.

26. What type of errors usually occur in Census and Survey data Discuss various methods for detecting digit preference in reporting of age data.

27. Give a critique of the following development indicators to ensure all round socioeconomic
development at the level of household, community and the larger area in which they make a living

Literacy and Education.
Skill development for utilisation of local resources and creation of durable assets.
Health and nutrition.

28. Explain the salient features of India's National Population Policy 2000.