ISBN:
9780511660344
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 657 pages)
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Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 32
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DDC:
304.6/0942
Keywords:
Family reconstitution History
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Fertility, Human History
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Mortality History
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Mortality ; England ; History
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Fertility, Human ; England ; History
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Family reconstitution ; England ; History
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England ; Population ; History
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England Population
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History
Abstract:
English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580–1837 is the most important single contribution to English historical demography since Wrigley and Schofield's Population History of England. It represents the culmination of work carried out at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure over the past quarter-century. This work demonstrates the value of the technique of family reconstitution as a means of obtaining accurate and detailed information about fertility, morality, and nuptiality in the past. Indeed, more is now known about many aspects of English demography in the parish register period than about the post-1837 period when the Registrar-General collected and published information. Using data from 26 parishes, the authors show clearly that their results are representative not only of the demographic situation of the parishes from which the data were drawn, but also of the country as a whole. Some very surprising features of the behaviour of past populations are brought to light for the first time
Abstract:
1. Introduction -- 2. The reconstitution parishes -- 3. Representativeness -- 4. Reliability -- 5. Nuptiality -- 6. Mortality -- 7. Fertility -- 8. Reconstitution and inverse projection -- 9. Conclusion -- App. 1. A list of the reconstituted parishes from which data were drawn and of the names of those who carried out the reconstitutions -- App. 2. Examples of the slips and forms used in reconstitution and a description of the system of weights and flags employed -- App. 3. Truncation bias and similar problems -- App. 4. Tests for logical errors in reconstitution data -- App. 5. Correcting for a 'missing' parish in making tabulations of marriage age -- App. 6. The estimation of adult mortality -- App. 7. Adjusting mortality rates taken from the four groups to form a single series -- App. 8. The calculation of the proportion of women still fecund at any given age
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511660344
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