CBSE Questions for Class 9 Economics People As Resource Quiz 1 - MCQExams.com

In a developed economy number of educated people should be high and so literacy. If literacy is high, illiteracy should be low. Among the given options, B has 10% of the working age population as illiterates. It also has high life expectancy. Hence country B is developed.

The total dependency load ratio is based on a combination of the youth population ratio with the senior citizen population ratio. Then it is averaged to every 100 workers. The youth demographic dependency is based on the ratio of the youth population to the working population. The senior demographic dependency ratio is based on the senior population to the working-age population. The dependency load is based on age and not employment status. It does not take into account young people and seniors who are working. The ratio also does not account for people who are of a working age but who are unemployed.

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on your weight in relation to your height, and applies to most adult men and women aged 20 and over. 

• As per government statistics, India’s Education for All program – Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) - caters to some 200 million children living in over a million habitations across the country, making it one of the largest elementary education programs in the world.
  
• Since 2001, the program has brought nearly 20 million children into primary school. Very few countries can parallel this impressive performance. 
  

• Living in a large and well-furnished house is not guaranteed healthy living. In fact, people living in large, well-furnished houses have been seen frequently suffering from common lifestyle diseases like obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. Other ailments like allergies, poor mental health, lack of social life, etc. 
• Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, consuming a balanced diet, regular exercises and having a proper social life is a key to good health. 

• The Human Development Index (HDI) is defined as the composite statistics used to rank countries by levels of human development. The HDI is a measure of health, education and income. It measures the average achievements in a country in these three basic dimensions of human development, calculated into an index.
  
• Total 177 countries were ranked according to the HDI in 2008 in United Nation Development Report.
  

Body Mass Index (BMI) is measured using weight (in kilograms) divided by height (in metres, squared). It reflects body fat stores and is an important way of classifying subjects into weight categories, which correlate with risks. BMI is used to classify adults into a number of weight categories.

Spring water, forests and rain water are renewable natural sources. Medicines are made by human beings to cure diseases. 

The age structure or composition of a population is the distribution by age of the population. The age and sex composition of a population is the distribution by age and sex of the population.

1:Underemployment occurs when a person does not work full time or takes a job that does not reflect their actual training and financial needs.
2:That is, their job doesn't use all their skills and education, or provides less than full time work.

Fear of unemployment made workers hostile to the technology. When Spinning Jenny was introduced in the woollen industry, women who survived on hand spinning began attacking the new machines.

Non market activities are the production for self- consumption and processing of primary product and own account production of fixed assets.

Underemployment refers to a job that is insufficient in some important way for a worker, relative to a standard, which results in the under-utilisation of the worker.
Examples include holding a part-time job despite desiring full-time work, and over qualification, where the employee has education, experience, or skills beyond the requirements of the job.

When people are considered as a resource it is called human resource. Human resource form an important part because any resource can be turned into a useful resource through human resource.

1:Soil erosion is the loss of top fertile layer of soil either by wind or by water.
India is facing this problem in many parts.
2:The area affected by soil erosion is 5, 00,000 square kilometres. It adversely affects productivity and economy of the country.
3:If the soil erosion is by wind it is called wind erosion.
4:Desertification is mainly caused by wind erosion.

Magnitude of population growth refers to the number of persons added to the population each year. It is obtained by simply subtracting the earlier population (e.g. that of 1991) from the later population (e.g. that of 2001).  It is referred to as the absolute increase.. 

Human resources are the people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, or economy. "Human capital" is sometimes used synonymously with "human resources", although human capital typically refers to a more narrow view (i.e., the knowledge the individuals embody and economic growth). Likewise, other terms sometimes used include "manpower", "talent", "labour", "personnel", or simply "people".

A human-resources department (HR department) of an organization performs human resource management, overseeing various aspects of employment, such as compliance with labour law and employment standards, administration of employee benefits, and some aspects of recruitment and dismissal.