Will you please share the previous year question paper of NET Population Studies Paper III Exam?????

As per your request here I am sharing the previous year question paper of NET Population Studies Paper III Exam

Note : This section contains five (5) questions based on the following paragraph.
Each question should be answered in about thirty (30) words and carries five (5)
marks. (5 5 = 25 Marks)

Let us leave the contemporary scene for a while and dwell on the desirability and
prospects of wider acceptance of the small family norm. In our kind of poverty, any social or
economic improvement, however small, particularly at the lower levels, is fraught with pronatalist
consequences, at least in the short run, until a threshold is reached where elasticity of
demand for children may begin to decline and an anti-natalist trend may set in. An
improvement in the level of education, even the attainment of literacy, or rise in income, or a
job of supposedly higher status or security, even migration from rural to urban, or even plain
job mobility suggestive of improvement, not to speak of real improvement, however small, in
housing, consumption, education, employment, social and economic status, expands the
horizon of expectations. It extends the span of useful effort and accumulation of personal
wealth. All this invites investment by way of a fresh addition to the family to whom these
benefits can be passed on so they can yield better returns when the child grows better
equipped to manhood. Enterprise being seen by an Indian as centred on the household,
anything that goes to enhance the wealth of the household is well worth investigating in. And
what can be of more enduring value to a household than another child who can give the
highest over-life-time return on that education to that household of which the head had been
deprived in his childhood and for which he had suffered ?
At the national level, the desirability of a sharp reduction in the birth rate, with a
matching reduction in the death rate is all too evident. The end, expressed in the form of
phased targets of reduction of the birth rate, would justify the judicious adoption of incentives
and disincentives both for State and personal effort, of the kind adumbrated in the Population
Policy.

1. What do you deduce about the ‘small family norm’ from the passage ?
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2. Explain “Wealth of the household”.
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3. What do you understand by ‘elasticity of demand for children’ ?
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4. Explain ‘Pronatalistic consequences of economic development’.
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5. Comment on ‘anti-natalist’ trend.
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SECTION – II

Note : This section contains fifteen (15) questions, each to be answered in about thirty
(30) words. Each question carries five (5) marks.
(15 5 = 75 Marks)

6. Distinguish between Census and Sample Surveys.
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7. Distinguish between population estimates and population projection.
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8. What do you mean by age-sex structure of a population ?
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9. What is post-partum amenorrhoea ? What are the determinants of post-partum
amenorrhoea ?
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10. Define Reproductive Health.
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11. What is the definition of a town according to Census of India ?
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12. Differentiate between Arithmetic Progression and Geometrical Progression.
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13. What is the meaning of ‘ecological imbalance’ ?
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14. Examine the linkage between gender and migration.
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15. Define population policy.
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16. Give the characteristics of Hexagonal model of settlement distribution.
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17. Differentiate between main worker and marginal worker.
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18. What are the implications of population growth on sanitation ?
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19. What are the health impacts of water pollution ?
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20. What are the objectives of National Rural Health Mission ?
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SECTION-III

Note : This section contains five (5) questions from each of the electives/specialisations.
The candidate has to choose only one elective/specialisation and answer all the five
questions from it. Each question carries twelve (12) marks and is to be answered in
about two hundred (200) words. (5 12 = 60 Marks)

ELECTIVE – I

(Techniques of Population Analysis)

21. Explain GRR and NRR. What interpretation be made if NRR < 1 or > 1 ?

22. Give a procedure to compute singulate mean age at marriage.

23. Discuss component method of population projection.

24. Discuss various measures of fertility along with their merits and demerits.

25. Write a note on the Model Life Table. Give its uses.

ELECTIVE – II

(Population Settlements and Human Ecology)

21. Discuss various measures of population density.

22. Discuss various determinants and consequences of internal migration.

23. Give a typology of the external forms of rural settlements with suitable interpretation.

24. Write a note on the characteristics of the tributary area of a central place.

25. Underline the population response to natural and human disasters.

ELECTIVE – III

(Population, Development & Environment)

21. Population and economic development should be complementary and not competitive.

22. Critically analyse the concept of ‘Place Work Folk’ in the context of
‘Environment Development Population’.

23. Discuss the merits and limitations of Human Development Index as a measure of
poverty and socio-economic development.

24. Comment on the views of Coale and Hoover and Estner Boserup on the relationship
between population growth and economic development.

25. Quality of housing under different environment is an important indicator of
development. Comment.

ELECTIVE – IV

(Family Welfare Programme in India)

21. State the background for the adoption of “Reproductive and Child Health Approach”
to the Family Welfare Programme. Explain the package of services offered under
RCH programme.

22. Discuss the services offered for child survival and safe motherhood under
Reproductive and Child Health Programme.

23. Why is sharp decline noted in Vasectomies compared to tubectomies during the last
few decades ? Explain.

24. What are the socio-demographic goals set for 2010 in the National Population Policy
2000 ? How far these goals are achieved ?

25. Critically analyse the merits and limitations of target free approach.

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Note : This section consists of one essay type question of forty (40) marks to be
answered in about one thousand (1000) words on any one of the following
topics. (1 40 = 40 Marks)

26. What type of errors usually occur in Census and Survey data ? Discuss various methods
for detecting digit preference in reporting of age data.

Give a critique of the following development indicators to ensure all round socioeconomic
development at the level of household, community and the larger area in
which they make a living
(i) Literacy and Education.
(ii) Skill development for utilisation of local resources and creation of durable
assets.
(iii) Health and nutrition.

Write an essay on Population – Development – Environment nexus.

Explain the salient features of India’s National Population Policy 2000.
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