CHAPTER 4

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1. Between 1901 and 1998, the proportion of older people rose from 5 percent to _____ percent of Canada's population, making it one of the oldest populations in the world.

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10.7
15.6
21.3

2. Countries having the largest proportions of older people in their population in the world tend to be

European countries that went through a demographic transition first.
Asian countries not directly involved in World War II.
industrialized North American countries.
independent African countries.

3. Of the three demographic forces recognized by demographers that affect a population's size and structure, the force that played the smallest part in aging Canada's population was

birth rate.
economic stability.
religion.
immigration.

4. The proportion of foreign-born people in the older population may increase in the near future as a result of

a wave of immigration in the 1950?s.
older cohorts, with a higher proportion Canadian-born, dying.
better health care following immigration.
decreasing birth rates across Canada.

5. "The average number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through all her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year" is known as

the birth rate.
the age-specific birth rate.
the fertility rate.
the reproductive potential.