CPH (Lab) Module 2
Census - correct answer ✔✔is defined as "the total process of collecting, compiling and publishing
demographic, economic and social data pertaining, at a specified time or times, to all persons in a
country or delimited territory.
de jure - correct answer ✔✔assigns individuals to the place of their usual residence regardless of where
they were actually enumerated during the census.
de facto - correct answer ✔✔where people are allocated to the areas where they were physically
present at the census date regardless of where they usually live.
Sample survey - correct answer ✔✔information is collected from a sample of individuals rather than
from the entire population. It consists of only a fraction of the total population. Several different
population samples can be drawn on the basis of sample surveys such as the number of abortions,
contraceptives used, etc. for the study of fertility.
Vital Registration System - correct answer ✔✔deal with the continuous recording of vital events like
births, deaths, stillbirths, marriages, adoptions, divorces and annulments as they occur in the population.
Continuing population registers - correct answer ✔✔another secondary source of collecting population
data. It contains the names, addresses, age, sex, etc. of every citizen, of those who migrate to other
countries and who enter the country. The population registers helps in verifying the correctness of the
census figures for that year
Other Records - correct answer ✔✔Besides the population register, there are other records which are
secondary sources of demographic data in developed countries. They maintain population records to
meet social security schemes like unemployment insurance and allowance, old age pension, maternity
allowance, etc.
Selective demographic data are also available from electoral lists, income tax payers' lists, telephone
subscribers' lists, social security system, etc. Though such administrative data are limited, they are
helpful in providing for carrying out sample surveys
Census - correct answer ✔✔is defined as "the total process of collecting, compiling and publishing
demographic, economic and social data pertaining, at a specified time or times, to all persons in a
country or delimited territory.
de jure - correct answer ✔✔assigns individuals to the place of their usual residence regardless of where
they were actually enumerated during the census.
de facto - correct answer ✔✔where people are allocated to the areas where they were physically
present at the census date regardless of where they usually live.
Sample survey - correct answer ✔✔information is collected from a sample of individuals rather than
from the entire population. It consists of only a fraction of the total population. Several different
population samples can be drawn on the basis of sample surveys such as the number of abortions,
contraceptives used, etc. for the study of fertility.
Vital Registration System - correct answer ✔✔deal with the continuous recording of vital events like
births, deaths, stillbirths, marriages, adoptions, divorces and annulments as they occur in the population.
Continuing population registers - correct answer ✔✔another secondary source of collecting population
data. It contains the names, addresses, age, sex, etc. of every citizen, of those who migrate to other
countries and who enter the country. The population registers helps in verifying the correctness of the
census figures for that year
Other Records - correct answer ✔✔Besides the population register, there are other records which are
secondary sources of demographic data in developed countries. They maintain population records to
meet social security schemes like unemployment insurance and allowance, old age pension, maternity
allowance, etc.
Selective demographic data are also available from electoral lists, income tax payers' lists, telephone
subscribers' lists, social security system, etc. Though such administrative data are limited, they are
helpful in providing for carrying out sample surveys
