Statistics for Sociology: Demography - Statistics & Trends

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Answer	Hint	% Correct
10%	According to Victor et al. (2005), this was the percentage of older people who saw their relatives in less than once a year.	100%
1,093,000	This was the number of births in the UK in 1901.	100%
1.58	This was the Total Fertility Rate in 2020.	100%
25%	This was the percentage of UK adults who were obese in 2012, according to Sarah Harper (2012)	100%
3.7%	This was the percentage of the elderly living in sheltered housing or residential houses in 2011.	100%
5%	According to Victor (2010), this was the percentage of the elderly being taken in by relatives in the 1990s.	100%
~50%	This was the rough percentage of student visas given to Indian and Chinese Nationals in the UK in 2022.	100%
5,800,000	RIAS (2012) that this was the number of grandparents who currently look after their grandchildren regularly for an average of 10 hours per week.	100%
613,936	This was the number of births in England and Wales in 2020.	100%
64	This was the General Fertility Rate in 2010.	100%
68%	This is the percentage of women aged 65 and above who make up single-person households.	100%
Higher	This is what the Total Fertility Rate is for women born outside of the UK compared to women born in the UK.	100%
10%	According to Victor (2010), this was the percentage of the elderly being taken in by relatives in 2010.	0%
115	This was the General Fertility Rate in 1900.	0%
1/3	Improved medication, by-pass surgery and other developments have reduced deaths from heart disease by this amount.	0%
18.6%	This is the percentage of the population which is aged 65+: -It is not a homogenous group - huge differences across age, sex, social class, location, family. -However, society often treats old people as the same and as a 'burden'.	0%
23%	This was the percentage of babies born to women aged 24 years and under in 2012.	0%
26.5%	This was the percentage of babies born to mothers from overseas in 2013.	0%
28%	Centre of Economic and Business Research (2014) found this was the percentage of income parents spent on their offspring.	0%
3.5	This was the Total Fertility Rate in 1900.	0%
40%	According to Victor (2010), this was the percentage of the elderly being taken in by relatives in the 1950s.	0%
47%	This was the percentage of babies born to women aged 24 years and under in 1971.	0%
606,000	This was the UK net migration in 2022.	0%
75%	Neil Tranter (1996) found that 75% of the decline in the death rate from about 1850 to 1970 was due to a fall in the number of deaths from infectious diseases.	0%
77%	According to Victor et al. (2005), this was the percentage of older people who saw their relatives on a weekly basis.	0%