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Gender Statistics MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
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Q1Consider the following statements: 1. Under PLFS, usual activity status uses the last 365 days preceding the survey date as the reference period. 2. Under PLFS, Current Weekly Status uses the last 30 days preceding the survey date as the reference period. 3. The seventh PLFS Annual Report was based on the survey conducted during July 2023-June 2024. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 is correct: usual status uses the preceding 365 days. Statement 2 is incorrect because CWS uses the last 7 days, not 30 days. Statement 3 is correct for the seventh annual PLFS report.
Q21. In PLFS 2023-24, usual-status LFPR in rural areas was 63.7 percent. 2. In PLFS 2023-24, usual-status LFPR in urban areas was 52.0 percent. 3. The table for PLFS 2023-24 places rural female LFPR at 47.6 percent and urban female LFPR at 28.0 percent. 4. In PLFS 2023-24, urban usual-status LFPR was higher than rural usual-status LFPR. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1, 2 and 3 are correct. The PLFS 2023-24 usual-status LFPR table gives rural LFPR as 63.7 percent and urban LFPR as 52.0 percent, with rural female and urban female LFPR at 47.6 percent and 28.0 percent respectively. Statement 4 is false because rural LFPR was higher than urban LFPR.
Q3Consider the following statements based on NFHS-5 India marriage, fertility and maternity-care indicators: 1. The share of women aged 20-24 years married before age 18 declined from 26.8% in NFHS-4 to 23.3% in NFHS-5. 2. Total fertility rate increased from 2.0 children per woman in NFHS-4 to 2.2 in NFHS-5. 3. The adolescent fertility rate for women aged 15-19 declined from 51 in NFHS-4 to 43 in NFHS-5. 4. Institutional births increased from 78.9% in NFHS-4 to 88.6% in NFHS-5. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1, 3 and 4 are correct. Statement 2 is false: the all-India total fertility rate declined from 2.2 in NFHS-4 to 2.0 in NFHS-5; the statement reverses the direction and swaps the two values.
Q4Consider the following statements: 1. Overall usual-status LFPR increased from 57.9% in 2022-23 to 60.1% in 2023-24. 2. Female usual-status LFPR increased from 37.0% in 2022-23 to 41.7% in 2023-24. 3. Male usual-status LFPR declined from 78.5% to 78.8% during the same period. 4. Female usual-status unemployment rate increased from 2.9% to 3.2% during the same period. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1, 2 and 4 are correct. The overall and female LFPRs increased, and female UR rose from 2.9% to 3.2%. Statement 3 is false because male LFPR increased from 78.5% to 78.8%, not declined.
Q5Consider the following statements on current-weekly-status LFPR in PLFS 2023-24 for persons aged 15 years and above: 1. Rural LFPR increased from 48.9% in 2017-18 to 58.9% in 2023-24. 2. Urban LFPR increased from 47.1% in 2017-18 to 50.8% in 2023-24. 3. All-India female LFPR increased from 21.1% in 2017-18 to 35.6% in 2023-24. 4. All-India male LFPR declined from 75.1% in 2017-18 to 73.8% in 2023-24. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1, 2 and 3 are correct. Statement 4 is false: all-India male LFPR in CWS increased from 75.1% to 77.5%; 73.8% is the all-India male WPR in CWS for 2023-24, not LFPR.
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6Consider the following statements: 1. According to the NFHS-5 table cited by PIB, Rajasthan's sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years was 891, compared with 887 in NFHS-4. 2. Haryana's sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years declined from 893 in NFHS-4 to 836 in NFHS-5. 3. Ladakh's sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years was 1125 in NFHS-5. Which of the statements given above are correct?
7Consider the following statements based on NFHS-5 India maternity-care indicators: 1. Mothers who had an antenatal check-up in the first trimester increased from 58.6% in NFHS-4 to 70.0% in NFHS-5. 2. Mothers who had at least 4 antenatal-care visits increased from 51.2% in NFHS-4 to 58.1% in NFHS-5. 3. Mothers who consumed iron-folic acid for 180 days or more when pregnant increased from 14.4% in NFHS-4 to 26.0% in NFHS-5. 4. Average out-of-pocket expenditure per delivery in a public health facility increased from Rs. 2,916 in NFHS-4 to Rs. 3,197 in NFHS-5. Which of the statements given above are correct?
8Consider the following statements: 1. In 2023-24, usual-status female LFPR was 41.7%, while current-weekly-status female LFPR was 35.6%. 2. In 2023-24, usual-status female WPR was 40.3%, while current-weekly-status female WPR was 33.8%. 3. In 2023-24, usual-status female UR was 3.2%, while current-weekly-status female UR was 5.0%. 4. In current weekly status, male LFPR decreased from 77.5% in 2017-18 to 75.1% in 2023-24. Which of the statements given above are correct?
9Consider the following statements based on NFHS-5 India family-planning indicators for currently married women aged 15-49 years: 1. Use of any family-planning method increased from 53.5% in NFHS-4 to 66.7% in NFHS-5. 2. Use of any modern method increased from 47.8% in NFHS-4 to 56.5% in NFHS-5. 3. Female sterilization increased from 36.0% in NFHS-4 to 37.9% in NFHS-5. 4. Male sterilization increased from 0.3% in NFHS-4 to 2.1% in NFHS-5. Which of the statements given above are correct?
101. In PLFS 2023-24, usual-status WPR for males aged 15 years and above was 76.3 percent. 2. In PLFS 2023-24, usual-status WPR for females aged 15 years and above was 40.3 percent. 3. The usual-status unemployment rate for females in 2023-24 was lower than the male rate. 4. Female usual-status WPR rose from 35.9 percent in 2022-23 to 40.3 percent in 2023-24. Which of the statements given above are correct?
11Consider the following statements: 1. Among persons aged 15-59 years who received formal vocational or technical training, 83.3% of males were in the workforce. 2. Among persons aged 15-59 years who received formal vocational or technical training, the female workforce share was higher than the male share. 3. Among such trained persons, the female workforce share was 51.4%. Which of the statements given above are correct?
12Consider the following statements based on NFHS-5 India key indicators: 1. The sex ratio of the total population was 1,020 females per 1,000 males in NFHS-5, compared with 991 in NFHS-4. 2. Sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years was 1,020 females per 1,000 males in NFHS-5. 3. In NFHS-5, 33.3% of women and 57.1% of men had ever used the internet. 4. In NFHS-5, the share of women with 10 or more years of schooling was higher than the corresponding share for men. Which of the statements given above are correct?
13Consider the following statements: 1. In usual status, all-India female LFPR increased from 23.3% in 2017-18 to 41.7% in 2023-24. 2. In usual status, all-India male LFPR increased from 75.8% in 2017-18 to 78.8% in 2023-24. 3. In usual status, urban LFPR increased from 52.0% in 2017-18 to 47.6% in 2023-24. Which of the statements given above are correct?
141. The corpus fact bank records the all-India sex ratio at birth in 2021-23 as 917. 2. The corpus fact bank records the all-India sex ratio at birth in 2017-19 as 904. 3. PLFS 2023-24 reports female LFPR in usual status for age 15 years and above at 41.7 percent. 4. PLFS 2023-24 reports female WPR in usual status for age 15 years and above at 41.7 percent. Which of the statements given above are correct?
15Consider the following statements on usual-status labour indicators in PLFS 2023-24 for persons aged 15 years and above: 1. Rural LFPR increased from 50.7% in 2017-18 to 63.7% in 2023-24. 2. All-India female LFPR increased from 23.3% in 2017-18 to 41.7% in 2023-24. 3. All-India female WPR increased from 22.0% in 2017-18 to 40.3% in 2023-24. 4. All-India female unemployment rate increased from 5.6% in 2017-18 to 7.1% in 2023-24. Which of the statements given above are correct?