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Component 1: Changing Landscapes and Changing Places
Quick questions on Demographic and socio-economic change - Eduqas A-Level Geography
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What are the characteristics of places?Show answer
Eduqas expects precise use of the data that describe a place. Demographic measures include the population pyramid (age and sex structure), birth and death rates, and ethnic and household composition. Socio-economic measures include the employment structure (the balance of primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary work), income and deprivation (indices of multiple deprivation), education, health and housing tenure. These are largely read from census and official data, and comparing two dates shows how a place has changed.
What is the processes driving change?Show answer
The character of a place changes because people, capital and activity move. Deindustrialisation (the decline of manufacturing) hollowed out the employment and incomes of many industrial cities; suburbanisation moved population outward; counter-urbanisation moved it to rural areas; re-urbanisation and gentrification later drew wealthier residents back to regenerated inner areas, displacing poorer ones. Each process leaves a demographic and socio-economic fingerprint in the data, so explaining change means linking the process to the measured shift.
What are two contrasting places?Show answer
A defining Eduqas requirement is the in-depth study of two contrasting places, normally one local (often the centre's own area, used for fieldwork) and one distant or different in scale or context. For each you study its demographic and socio-economic characteristics, how and why they have changed over time, and how the place is represented, using both quantitative data (census, deprivation indices, geospatial data) and qualitative sources (media, interviews, photographs, lived experience). The contrast is the point: comparing a local place with a distant one shows how the same global processes produce different outcomes in different settings.
What is q1?Show answer
Define the term deindustrialisation. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain why a place's population might age over time. [3 marks]
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