Melissa Braithwaite

Quick Check Questions

1) Identify two public health measures that helped to produce
the decline in the death rate.
There are now improvements in housing and purer drinking water.
2) Suggest two reasons for the decline in the birth rate in the 20th
Century.
There are no changes in the position of women, such as legal
equality and children have become an economic liability.
3) Suggest two reasons for class differences in infant mortality.
Some people can afford better sanitation and others cannot also
some classes have access to information about hygiene where as
others do not.
4) How might population trends in the UK be related to the
increase in the proportion of married women working?
Women now have better jobs so they are waiting to get married
and have children.
5) Suggest two reasons for the decline in maternal mortality.
Better sanitation and better healthcare.
6) Identify three reasons why many women today are having
their children at a later age than earlier generations.
Better jobs
Access to abortion
Changes in positions
7) What is the typical effect of immigration on fertility rates?
Immigrant women tend to have a higher fertility rate, which
contributes to a higher dependency ration by adding more children
to the population. This also reduces the average age of the
population and can produce more workers.
8) Identify two effects migration may have on the dependency
ratio.
Contributes to a higher dependency ration by adding more children
to the population. This also reduces the average age of the
population and can produce more workers.