Old and new methods in historical demography /
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| Imprint: | Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. |
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| Description: | viii, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International studies in demography |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2345148 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / David S. Reher and Roger Schofield
- 1. Inverse Projection and Demographic Fluctuations: A Critical Assessment of New Methods / Ronald D. Lee
- 2. Generalized Inverse Projection / Jim Oeppen
- 3. Benchmarks for a New Inverse Population Projection Program: England, Sweden, and a Standard Demographic Transition / Robert McCaa
- 4. The Trend Method Applied to English Data / Noel Bonneuil
- 5. Other Paths to the Past: From Vital Series to Population Patterns / Massimo Livi Bacci and David S. Reher
- 6. Short-Run Population Dynamics among the Rich and Poor in European Countries, Rural Jutland, and Urban Rouen / Patrick R. Galloway
- 7. The Construction of Individual Life Histories: Application to the Study of Geographical Mobility in the Valserine Valley in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / A. Bideau and G. Brunet
- 8. Incomplete Histories in Family Reconstitution: A Sensitivity Test of Alternative Strategies with Historical Croatian Data / E. A. Hammel
- 9. Family Reconstitution and Population Reconstruction: Two Approaches to the Fertility Transition in France, 1740-1911 / David R. Weir
- 10. Family Reconstitution as Event-History Analysis / Myron P. Gutmann and George Alter
- 11. Techniques of Event-History Analysis / James Trussell and Timothy Guinnane
- 12. An Attempt to Analyse Individual Migration Histories from Data on Place of Usual Residence at the Time of Certain Vital Events: France during the Nineteenth Century / Daniel Courgeau
- 13. Some Applications of Recent Developments in Event-History Analysis for Historical Demography / Ian Diamond, Rhodri Davies and Peter Egger
- 14. Combined Time-Series and Life-Event Analysis: The Impact of Economic Fluctuations and Air Temperature on Adult Mortality by Sex and Occupation in a Swedish Mining Parish, 1757-1850 / Tommy Bengtsson
- 15. Simulation of Change to Validate Demographic Analysis / Herve Le Bras
- 16. Estimating Numbers of Kin in Historical England Using Demographic Microsimulation / James E. Smith and Jim Oeppen
- 17. My Brother's Keeper: Modelling Kinship Links in Early Urbanization / E. A. Hammel and Carl Mason
- 18. Coarse and Refined Methods for Studying the Fertility Transition in Historical Populations / Douglas Ewbank
- 19. The Last Emperors: An Introduction to the Demography of the Qing (1644-1911) Imperial Lineage / James Lee, Cameron Campbell and Wang Feng
- 20. Historical Demography from the Census: Applications of the American Census Microdata Files / Steven Ruggles
- 21. Excess Mortality in Youth / James C. Riley.