Crude Birth Rate The Crude Birth Rate (CBR) is expressed as number of live births in a year per thousand of population. It is calculated as: Where Bi...
Migration, fertility and mortality are the basic fundamental elements determining population growth and demographic structure of a country. Migration is permanent or semi-permanent change of residence of an...
The age-sex structure of a population refers to the number of females and males in different age groups. An age sex pyramid or population pyramid is used to...
The demographic transition theory studies the relationship between economic development and population growth. It discusses about changes in birth rate and death rate and consequently growth rate of...
An important question pertaining to enumeration that always arises at a Population Census is whether the population should be counted on a de-facto basis i.e. at the place...
‘Canvasser’ and the ‘Householder’ methods are the two recognised methods of census enumeration. Under the ‘Canvasser’ method the enumerator approaches every household and records the answer on the...
NITI Aayog (Policy Commission) or National Institution for Transforming India was established via a Union Cabinet resolution on January 1, 2015 as a premier Policy Think Tank of...
From its establishment in 1950 till it was abolished recently, the Planning Commission stayed and stood tall amid all policy making institutions of the country for 65 years....
Jawaharlal Nehru was greatly influenced by the achievements of Soviet Planning. Since he also viewed democratic qualities of capitalism as indispensable for complete economic and social growth and...
India has completed eleven plans and twelfth is underway. The 65 years of planning in India has a mixed result. Sometimes targets have been realised while some other...
