Changing family size in England and Wales : place, class, and demography, 1891-1911 / Eilidh Garrett [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrett, Eilidh, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 36.

Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family size--England--History.

Family size.

Family size--Wales--History.

Fertility, Human--England--History.

Fertility, Human.

Fertility, Human--Wales--History.

Infants--Mortality--England.

Infants.

Infants--Mortality--Wales.

Social classes--England--History.

Social classes.

Social classes--Wales--History.

England--Population.

England.

Wales--Population.

Wales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 526 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Changing Family Size in England & Wales

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, Schürer and Szreter were permitted access ahead of scheduled release dates. Using the responses of the inhabitants of thirteen 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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 478-500) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12271-6

0-511-11935-6

0-511-15336-8

0-511-04760-6

0-511-32787-0

0-511-49581-1

1-280-15483-7

0-521-80153-2

OCLC:

475914697