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Changing family size in England and Wales : place, class, and demography, 1891-1911

Author: Eilidh Garrett; et al
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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 13 communities to the special questions included in the 1911 'fertility' census, they consider the interactions between the  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Eilidh Garrett; et al
ISBN: 0521801532 9780521801539
OCLC Number: 45002131
Description: xxiii, 526 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. Locations for study --
3. Studying locations --
4. Infant and child mortality from the 1911 census --
5. Fertility and fertility behaviour 1891-1911 --
6. The national picture --
7. Class, place and demography: the mosaic of demographic change in England and Wales from Waterloo to the Great War --
App. A. The indirect estimation of infant and child mortality and related applications --
App. B. Choice of regression method --
App. C. The values of community-level variables for each sector --
App. D. The percentage of the population of each country living in each type of place, subdivided by environment, England and Wales, 1921.
Series Title: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time.
Responsibility: Eilidh Garrett ... [et al.].
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Abstract:

"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 13 communities to the special questions included in the 1911 'fertility' census, they consider the interactions between the social, economic and physical environments in which people lived and their family building experience and behaviour. Techniques and approaches based in demography, history and geography enable the authors to re-examine the declines in infant mortality and marital fertility which occurred at the turn of the twentieth century. Comparisons are drawn within and between white collar, agricultural and industrial communities and the analyses, conducted at both local and national level, lead to conclusions which challenge both contemporary and current orthodoxies."--Jacket.

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