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

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, 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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ISBN: 0511495811 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511495816 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511327872
ISBN: 0511327870
ISBN: 9780511019364 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 051101936X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511119354 (electronic bk.)
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ISBN: 9780511032332 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 526 p.) : ill., maps.
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Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 478-500) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The fast-changing demography of England and Wales, c. 1880 ... 1920 -- 1.2 Demography, national anxiety and the 1911 census -- 1.3 A new approach to infant and child mortality ... the historiographical context -- 1.4 Fertility and nuptiality ... debates and description -- 1.5 Limitations of the present study -- 1.6 Summary -- Notes -- 2 Locations for study -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Selecting communities for study -- 2.3 Brief histories of the 13 locales -- Abergavenny -- Axminster -- Banbury -- Bethnal Green -- Bolton -- Earsdon -- Morland -- Pinner -- Saffron Walden -- Stoke -- Swansea -- Walthamstow -- York -- 2.4 Selection of the enumeration districts within locales -- Notes -- 3 Studying locations -- 3.1 From census enumerators' books to data files -- 3.2 Understanding the census variables -- A brief review of census history 1801 ... 1911 -- Considering the census variables -- 3.3 The Fertility Inquiry -- 3.4 Data analysis ... some concepts -- 3.5 Data analysis ... spatial or social units? The 'environments' -- Notes -- 4 Infant and child mortality from the 1911 census -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Measuring infant and child mortality from the 1911 census -- Standardised Child Mortality Rate (SCMR) -- Indirect estimation of infant and child mortality -- Mortality index -- 4.3 A comparison with the experience of the USA -- Locational factors -- Parental origins -- Father's social class, occupation and employment status -- Maternal employment -- Household structure -- Housing conditions -- 4.4 The influence of environment versus social class in infant and child mortality -- 4.5 Multiple regression techniques -- 4.6 Confirming the relationships between environment, social class, and infant and child mortality -- 4.7 The effects of social class and other socio-economic variables on infant and child mortality within different -- 4.8 Parity and infant and child mortality -- 4.9 The relative importance of variables -- 4.10 Do the influences on infant and child mortality operate through individual- or community-level characteristics? -- 4.11 Infant and child mortality differentials across time -- 4.12 Conclusions -- Notes -- 5 Fertility and fertility behaviour 1891 ... 1911 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2. Nuptiality -- 5.3 Calculating age-specific marital fertility rates and total marital fertility rates from census data -- Child ... woman ratios -- Age-specific marital fertility rates (ASMFRs) -- 5.4. Measures of 'stopping' behaviour in marital fertility: M and m -- 5.5 An alternative measure of fertility ... CPA -- 5.6 Retrospective histories of childbearing -- 5.7 Male occupation and fertility -- 5.8 Female occupations and fertility -- 5.9 The fertility of couples where both husband and wife returned an occupation in 1911 -- 5.10 Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 The national picture -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 'Environment' at the national scale -- 6.3 National patterns of infant and child mor.
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