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1. Type of Migration within the country.
Answer: Internal Migration
2. A type of pyramid population wherein it displays lower numbers or
percentages of younger people.
Answer: Constrictive population pyramid
3. International Day of Families is on
Answer: 15th of May
4. Natural increase is negative when the number of deaths exceeds the number
of births, which is referred to as _________.
Answer: Natural Decrease
5. When is the POPDEV week?
Answer: Every November 23 - 29
6. It refers to the growth in an economy that is the result of a change in the age
structure of a country's population. The change in age structure is typically
brought on by a decline in fertility and mortality rates
Answer: Demographic Dividend
7. Type of migration between countries
Answer: International Migration
8. What is the date of celebration for World AIDS Day?
Answer: December 1
9. It refers to the policies, instruments, programs and actions that address the
disadvantaged position of women in society by providing preferential
treatment and affirmative action.
Answer: Gender Equity
10.The type of shot most used is called Depo-Provera. It is a shot given every
three months. It is a hormone, much like the progesterone a woman produces
during the last two weeks of each monthly cycle.
Answer: Injectable Contraceptives
11.What is known as learning the signs of fertility in your menstrual cycle to help
you plan or avoid a pregnancy?
Answer: Fertility Awareness
12.The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another;
moving abroad
Answer: Emigration
13.Defined as the process by which an increasing proportion of the population
living in urban areas move to rural areas.
Answer: Counter-Urbanization
14.Births minus Deaths. It is expressed as thousands.
Answer: Natural Change
15.It refers to any agent or device used to prevent the transmission of a disease.
Answer: Prophylactic
16.The total fertility rate is the average number of children that would be born
alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through her
childbearing years (normally between the ages of 15 and 49 years).
Answer: Total Fertility Rate
17.It is a computation of future changes in population numbers, given certain
assumptions about future trends in the rates of fertility, mortality, and
migration. Demographers often issue low, medium, and high projections of
the same population, based on different assumptions of how these rates will
change in the future.
Answer: Population Projection
18.A process in which the proportions of adults and elderly increase in a
population, while the proportions of children and adolescents decrease.
Answer: Aging of population
19.It refers to all forms of violence inflicted on women on account of their
gender. In the broadest sense, it is a violation of a woman's personhood,
mental or physical integrity or freedom of movement.
POPDEV REVIEWER
Answer: Violence Against Women (VAW)/ Gender-Based Violence
(GBV)
20.A type of pyramid population wherein it displays somewhat equal numbers or
percentages for almost all age groups.
Answer: Stationary population pyramid
21.This refers to the network of facilities, institutions, and service providers
within the provincial, district and municipal/city health and social system
providing information, training, and core service packages of health and
social care for adolescents in an integrated and coordinated manner.
Answer: Information and Service Delivery Network for Adolescents
or ISDN
22.In the 2021 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study, what is the average age
of Filipino youth who started smoking?
Answer: 16 years old
23.The 2021 edition of the State of World Population highlighted why bodily
autonomy is a universal right that must be upheld. The report revealed how
serious many of the shortfalls in bodily autonomy are; many have worsened
under the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. What is the title of the 2021
State of the World Population Report?
Answer: My body is my own: claiming the right to
autonomy and self-determination
24.In the 2021 YAFSS, 93% of youth owned a smart phone. What region posted
the highest ownership of 99%?
Answer: National Capital Region or NCR
25.To implement EO 141, relevant interventions at the national and sub-national
levels shall be organized. What particular key result area is assigned to the
Department of Education?
Answer: Comprehensive Sexuality Education or CSE
26.Doubling time refers to the length of time a particular population would
double its size under a given growth rate. It has been found out that a
population growing at the rate of 1% annually doubles its size in 69.3 years. A
quick way to estimate doubling time is to divide 69.3 by the growth rate
expressed in percent. If population grows at 0.5% per year, what is the
doubling time?
Answer: 138 years
27.The HIV and AIDS epidemic in the Philippines is worsening, but the
percentage of young Filipinos who are aware of the disease had fallen to its
lowest since 1994. In the 2021 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study
(YAFS5) conducted by the University of the Philippines Population Institute
(UPPI), what percentage of youth (15-24) in the country have heard of HIV
and AIDS?
Answer: 76%
28.What trend is observed in births among adolescents according to recent
studies?
A. Births among adolescents aged 15-19 are increasing. (correct)
B. Births among older age groups are increasing.
C. Births among adolescents are stable.
D. Births among adolescents aged 15-19 are decreasing.
29.What percentage of adolescents aged 15-19 have begun childbearing
according to the 2013 YAFS?
A. 20.5%
B. 10.1%
C. 13.6% (correct)
D. 8.2%
30.Which country has the highest proportion of immigrants in its population?
Answer: UAE
31.What are the components of population growth?
Answer: Birth, Death & Migration
32.What Republic Act correspond to the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995?
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Answer: RA 7877
33.According to Psychosexual Development based on Erickson's Eight Stages of
Human Development, what is the age of a child under Stage II Autonomy vs.
Shame or Doubt?
Answer: 1 to 3
34.What is the name given to the rapid growth of world population that has
taken place since the industrial revolution?
Answer: Population Explosion
35.Which one of these statements best describes a theoretical situation where
the number of resources match the population of an area?
Answer: Optimum Population
36.How is population density calculated?
Answer: Population divided by area
37.How would you describe the age structure of a population where fertility is
declining?
Answer: Aging
38.Which one of these is not a problem associated with an overpopulated
country?
Answer: Lack of Workers to Exploit the country’s natural resources
39.How does one calculate the natural increase of a population?
Answer: Birth Rate – Death Rate
40.Which of the following statement is correct for the first stage of the
demographic transition model?
Answer: Birth rate high, death rate high and fluctuating, total
population low and constant
41.Why is the birth rate low in stage four (IV) of the demographic transition
model?
Answer: More women are working and consumerism means that the
cost of raising children is very high.
42.Which of the following is not a consequence of the decline in the working age
population?
Answer: Increased in the skilled worker ability
43.Why is the death rate high and fluctuating in stage one of the demographic
transition model?
Answer: Diseases spread rapidly in insanitary conditions
44.According to the United nation's "World Population Policies” report of 2015,
which region has the highest proportion of countries seeking to raise
immigration levels?
Answer: Europe
45.According to the United nation's "World Population Policies” report of 2015,
which region has the highest share of countries seeking to reduce current
levels of immigration?
Answer: Asia
46.Climate influences where people live across the world. Which climate
type has the highest Population?
Answer: Areas with constantly high temperature and little rainfall
47.Which of the following is not a push factor?
Answer: Higher Income
48.World Health Organization has declared ____ as the decade of healthy aging.
Answer: 2021-2030
49.From 2020 to 2021, life expectancy in the United States declined by____.
Answer: 0.9 year
50.Who is the Executive Director of the Population Commission in the Philippines
as of January 13, 2023?
Answer: Lisa Grace S. Bersales, Ph.D
51.What was celebrated last September 26, 2019?
Answer: 2nd World Contraception Day Philippines 2019
52.What month celebrated the National Family Planning Month?
Answer: August
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53.What is the theme for 100 Millionth Baby?
Answer: Bigyang Halaga ang bawat Pinoy sa Pag-unlad, Ngayon at
Bukas! ( Chonalyn Sentino, is one of the 100 Millionth baby, July 27,
2014)
54.What is the age of the youngest mother in Region 6?
Answer: 12
55.It is depicted by a pearl shining out of an open shell, is a symbol of a policy
shift towards openness in access to government information.
Answer: Transparency Seal
56.It aims to discuss the current issues and concerns of the Filipino youth and
the possible strategies we can use to solve these situations.
Answer: U4U
(U4U (You-for-You) is the Youth Hub Initiative of the Philippine
Commission on Population (POPCOM), supported by the UN
Population Fund (UNFPA). U4U aims to deliver critical information to
Filipino teens aged (10-19) to prevent teen pregnancy and reduce
the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections through online and
mobile platforms.)
57.Who is the youth ambassador for U4U, a program investing in our youth
through something where they are informed of changes in their lives, the
situations they may face, and options that they may consider for a better
future, we prepare our youth towards the right track?
Answer: Miguel Tanfelix
58.A presidential Decree was signed directing public and private sectors to
undertake a National Family Planning Program which respects the religious
beliefs and values of individuals.
Answer: Presidential Decree 79
59.It is known as the Population Act of the Philippines was enacted into law by
Congress.
Answer: Republic Act 6365
60.The year when the Philippine Population Program was officially launched
through the Executive Order No. 233. The Commission on Population
(POPCOM) was mandated to serve as the central coordinating and policy
making body of the government in the field of population.
Answer: 1970
61.When did President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issue Executive Order No. 188
attaching POPCOM to the Department of Health?
Answer: March 24, 2023
62.Who is the Philippine President who reformulated the Philippine Population
Management Program with Responsible Parenthood as its lynchpin in 1999?
Answer: Joseph Ejercito Estrada
63.What Executive Order issued making POPCOM an attached agency of the
National Economic and Development Authority?
Answer: Executive No. 476
64.What issued in 1990 placing POPCOM under the Office of the President in
order to "facilitate coordination of policies and programs relative to
population"?
Answer: Executive No. 408
65.Who is the president of the Philippines who was issued by the POPCOM Board
which states: "the ultimate goal of the Population Program is the
improvement of the quality of human life in a just and humane society... The
achievement of this goal requires a recognition of the close interrelationships
among population, resources and environmental factors?
Answer: Pres. Corazon c. Aquino
66.What Executive Order attached POPCOM to the Department of Social Welfare
and Development (DSWD), as the planning and coordinating agency in 1986?
Answer: Executive No. 123
POPDEV REVIEWER
67.When did President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issue guidelines and directive for
the DOH, POPCOM, and local government units to take full charge of the
implementation of the Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning Program?
Answer: October 10, 2026
68.What Presidential Decree was signed directing public and private sectors to
undertake a National Family Planning Program which respects the religious
beliefs and values of individuals in 1972?
Answer: Presidential Decree 79
69.In DOH AO No. 2017-0005, was tasked to review and expand existing benefit
packages for FP services.
Answer: PhilHealth
70.In DOH AO No. 2017-0005, the___ was tasked to create a policy on
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and provide necessary provisions
to ensure implementation of CSE in the school curriculum for both public and
private.
Answer: DepEd (Department of Education)
71.This AO was contextualized as a human rights-based intervention and
anchored on the following principles:
Answer: (1) Respect for Life (2) Respect for Human Life (3)Informed
Choice and Voluntarism (4)Respects for the rights of clients to
determined their desired family size
72.When was the DOH issued the AO No. 2017-0005, entitled "Guidelines in
Achieving Desired Family Size through Accelerated and Sustained Reduction
in Unmet Need for Modern Family Planning Methods" which laid down the
specific instructions to the various key stakeholders for its implementation in
support to the EO No. 12?
Answer: March 30, 2017
73.What Executive Order was signed to intensify and accelerate implementation
of critical actions necessary to attain and sustain zero unmet need for
modern family planning for all poor households by 2018 and all of Filipinos
thereafter within the context of RPRH Law and its implementing rules?
Answer: Executive Order No. 12/ Attaining “Zero Unmet Need for
Modern Family Planning”
74.
True/False. According to the Philippine National Demographic Health Survey
(NDHS) 2013, Filipino women have a total fertility rate5 of 3 as opposed to
the desired or wanted fertility rate of 2.
Answer: TRUE
75.Executive Order (EO) No. 12, Attaining and Sustaining "Zero Unmet Need for
Modern Family Planning (FP)" through the Strict Implementation of the RPRH
Act, Providing funds therefor, and for other Purposes, was signed on , to
intensify and accelerate implementation of critical actions necessary to attain
and sustain zero unmet need for modern family planning (MFP)
Answer: January 9, 2017
76.
Who is the Executive Director of the Philippine Population Commission and
Development?
Answer: Juan A. Antonio Perez III
77.It further strengthened the Program. It required the participation of private
organizations and individuals in the formulation and implementation of
population programs and policies.
Answer: Presidential Decree 166
78.What Republic Act corresponds to The Responsible Parenthood and
Reproductive Health Act of 2012?
Answer: Republic Act 10354
79.TRUE OR FALSE: The International Labor Organization report of 2015
estimates that migrant workers make up nearly three-quarters of all
international migrants of working age.
Answer: TRUE
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80.TRUE OR FALSE: The International Labor Organization report of 2015
estimates that migrant workers make up nearly three-quarters of all
international migrants of working age.
Answer: Demography
81.TRUE OR FALSE: A population pyramid that has a very wide base signifies
that the population is decreasing.
Answer: FALSE
