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

Title
  1. Changing family size in England and Wales : place, class, and demography, 1891-1911 / Eilidh Garrett [and others].
Published by
  1. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Additional authors
  1. Garrett, Eilidh.
Description
  1. xxiii, 526 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "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.
Series statement
  1. Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time
Uniform title
  1. Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time
Subject
  1. Family size > England > History
  2. Family size > Wales > History
  3. Fertility, Human > England > History
  4. Fertility, Human > Wales > History
  5. Infants > Mortality > England
  6. Infants > Mortality > Wales
  7. Social classes > England > History
  8. Social classes > Wales > History
  9. Family Characteristics > history
  10. Vital Statistics > history
  11. Social Class > history
  12. Family size
  13. Fertility, Human
  14. Infants > Mortality
  15. Population
  16. Social classes
  17. Familiengröße
  18. Bevolkingsontwikkeling
  19. Gezinsgrootte
  20. Sociale klassen
  21. Family size > Great Britain
  22. Fertility, Human > Great Britain > History
  23. Infants > Mortality > Great Britain
  24. Social classes > Great Britain > History
  25. Befolkning > Storbritannien > 1891-1911
  26. Demografi > Storbritannien > 1891-1991
  27. Fertilitet > Storbritannien > 1891-1991
  28. Familjer > Storbritannien > 1891-1991
  29. Geschichte 1891-1911
  30. England > Population
  31. Wales > Population
  32. England
  33. Wales
  34. Wales
  35. Great Britain > Population
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Series statement on jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 478-500) and index.