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• How do imbalanced sex ratios affect society?

• What measures can be taken to strike a balance in the sex ratio?


• Imbalanced sex ratio occurs when the proportion of females is more than males, or the proportion of males is more than females due to migration. It can affect the birth rate of females and employment factor.


• 1. Measures such as encouraging the birth of girl child should be promoted.


2. The government should make sure that the ban on sex determination of the foetus is strictly implemented.


3. Strict actions should be taken against those involved in female infanticide and female foeticide.


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Groups :

1.Male 2.Adoloscent3. Illiterate 4. Children 5. Unemployed 6. Infants 7. Literate 8.Rural 9.Working population 10. Urban 11. Female 12. Old 13. Young 14. Dependent population


15. Adult


Classify the above groups into the categories below Sex, Age, Rural, Urban, Literacy, Productive Population. The population can be subdivided as per the groups were given above. These subgroups and their relationship with one another is studied in the structure of the population.


 4

Have a class discussion based on the following questions.

• How many people in your house are studying? What is their age?


• How many people in your house are working for a living? How old are they?


• Do your grandparents still work? What is their age?


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Answer on basis of the given table.

Statistics 2010
























































Country



Percentage of the immigrant population



Afghanistan



0.14



Brazil



0.34



Kuwait



62.11



Bangladesh



0.73



Germany



12.31



Hongkong



42.59



Israel



37.87



India



0.52



Oman



24.46



Saudi Arabia



25.25



Great Britain



8.98



U S A



12.81



• Which countries have less than 10% migrant population?


• Which are the countries with a migrant population of between 10% to 20%?


• Which are the countries with a migrant population of more than 20%?


• Find the reason behind the migrant population of more than 20%.


• Draw two pie diagrams for any two countries.


• Have a discussion on migration and development.


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Have a discussion on the basis of the following questions and answer the following.

• What would you call the people who work in the places mentioned below? farm, factory, hotel, hospital, shop, school, office