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1. Fill in the Blanks (5)A. Population studies are the study of all the five determinants of population-fertility,

mortality, nuptiality, migration and social mobility are studies in relation to its composition and time factor.

B. Demographic analysis is confined to the study of components of population variations and change

C. According to Hauser and Duncan the field of demography as consisting of a narrow scope – demographic analysis and a wider scope- population studies

D. Other secondary sources that present some of these statistics are journals, textbooks, and research reports.

E. “LIVE BIRTH is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life”

a. A____________is a characteristic or attribute that can assume different values.

b. _________ Variables can assume certain numerical values.c. Level of measurement which classifies data into categories that can be ranked, however

differences between the ranks do not exist. Then we can use _________scaled. Statistics deals with ________ data

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F. What are the two sources of data?(2)

WOLLEGA UNIVERSITYCOLLEGE OF NATURAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCESTATISTICS PROGRAM- DEMOGRAPHY

TEST -1 (III YEAR STATISTICS)

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G. Define the term “Statistics” (3)