The National Population Policy of 2000

Q.

List any four characteristics of an ideal contraceptive.

Q. What is Replacement Level Fertility?

1. Level of fertility at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next.
2. Total number of children that would be born to each woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years.
3. Level of fertility at which a population increases itself from one generation to another.
4. Level of fertility at which a population exactly replaces itself.

Q. What are the objectives of National Population Policy 2000?

1. Reduce maternal mortality rate to below 100 per 100, 000 live births.
2. Achieve 100 percent registration of births, deaths, marriage and pregnancy.
3. All of these
4. Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births.

Q. National population policy aims at reduction of infant mortality rate(IMR) to _______.

1. 30 per 1000 live birth
2. 20 per live birth
3. 45 per live birth
4. 10 per live birth

Q. By the year 2012 the eleventh plan aims to reduce the maternal mortality rate per thousand live births to _____.

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

Q. Which of the following is/are the key aspects of the National Population Policy?

1. Late marriage for girls
2. Reduce infant mortality rate
3. Increased infant mortality rate
4. Universal immunisation

Q. level fertility is the level of fertility at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next.

1. Retention
2. Reproductive
3. Replacement

Q. What are contraceptives?

1. Medical ways to kill a baby
2. Medical ways to prevent pregnancy
3. Medical ways to prevent death
4. Medical ways to kill a girl child

Q. Promoting the norm of having a small family so that population growth can be checked is an objective of the National Population Policy.

1. True
2. False

Q. Why is it important to curb high population growth?

1. There can be enough jobs for people of all sections of society.
2. The mortality rate for infants will be reduced below 30 per 1000 births.
3. It will help improve and restore environmental or ecological systems.
4. Distribution of wealth and resources among the people.