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Changing family size in England and Wales : place, class, and demography, 1891-1911 /
"This volume is an important study in demographic history. It draws on the individual returns from the 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses of England and Wales, to which Garrett, Reid, Schurer and Szreter were permitted access ahead of scheduled release dates. Using the responses of the inhabitants of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 The fast-changing demography of England and Wales, c. 1880 ... 1920
- 1.2 Demography, national anxiety and the 1911 census
- 1.3 A new approach to infant and child mortality ... the historiographical context
- 1.4 Fertility and nuptiality ... debates and description
- 1.5 Limitations of the present study
- 1.6 Summary
- Notes
- 2 Locations for study
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Selecting communities for study
- 2.3 Brief histories of the 13 locales
- Abergavenny
- Axminster
- Banbury
- Bethnal Green
- Bolton
- Earsdon
- Morland
- Pinner
- Saffron Walden
- Stoke
- Swansea
- Walthamstow
- York
- 2.4 Selection of the enumeration districts within locales
- Notes
- 3 Studying locations
- 3.1 From census enumerators' books to data files
- 3.2 Understanding the census variables
- A brief review of census history 1801 ... 1911
- Considering the census variables
- 3.3 The Fertility Inquiry
- 3.4 Data analysis ... some concepts
- 3.5 Data analysis ... spatial or social units? The 'environments'
- Notes
- 4 Infant and child mortality from the 1911 census
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Measuring infant and child mortality from the 1911 census
- Standardised Child Mortality Rate (SCMR)
- Indirect estimation of infant and child mortality
- Mortality index
- 4.3 A comparison with the experience of the USA
- Locational factors
- Parental origins
- Father's social class, occupation and employment status
- Maternal employment
- Household structure
- Housing conditions
- 4.4 The influence of environment versus social class in infant and child mortality
- 4.5 Multiple regression techniques
- 4.6 Confirming the relationships between environment, social class, and infant and child mortality
- 4.7 The effects of social class and other socio-economic variables on infant and child mortality within different
- 4.8 Parity and infant and child mortality
- 4.9 The relative importance of variables
- 4.10 Do the influences on infant and child mortality operate through individual- or community-level characteristics?
- 4.11 Infant and child mortality differentials across time
- 4.12 Conclusions
- Notes
- 5 Fertility and fertility behaviour 1891 ... 1911
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2. Nuptiality
- 5.3 Calculating age-specific marital fertility rates and total marital fertility rates from census data
- Child ... woman ratios
- Age-specific marital fertility rates (ASMFRs)
- 5.4. Measures of 'stopping' behaviour in marital fertility: M and m
- 5.5 An alternative measure of fertility ... CPA
- 5.6 Retrospective histories of childbearing
- 5.7 Male occupation and fertility
- 5.8 Female occupations and fertility
- 5.9 The fertility of couples where both husband and wife returned an occupation in 1911
- 5.10 Conclusion
- Notes
- 6 The national picture
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 'Environment' at the national scale
- 6.3 National patterns of infant and child mor.