Old and New Methods in Historical Demography
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Event history analysis - the study of individual life-histories - has developed rapidly over the past few years. This book illustrates the use of the new techniques at the frontier of the subject. The number of surveys undertaken throughout the world to collect detailed information on the timing of events in individual lives (eg fertility surveys and migration histories) has increased, and new methods to analyze such data have developed. Unresolved technical and practical issues remain, and researchers have limited experience of the new techniques. This volume addresses these issues and provides information on the new methodologies. The book covers three main areas. First, it summarizes the work on the incorporation of measured heterogeneity into the analysis of event histories; secondly, it introduces a series of "competitions" in which pairs of teams are assigned to analyze the same topic using the same data; finally, it discusses other methodological issues such as the treatment of missing data, the analysis of current-status data, and the relation between discrete and continuous time-models.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Time series analysis and population reconstruction: inverse projection and demographic fluctuations; generalized inverse projection; benchmarks for a new inverse population projection programme - England, Sweden and a standard demographic transition; the trend method applied to English data; other paths to the past - from vital series to population patterns; short-run population dynamics among the rich and poor in European countries, rural Jutland and urban Rouen. Part 2 New challenges for record linking and family reconstitution: the construction of individual life histories - application to the study of geographical mobility in the Valserine valley in the 19th and 20th centuries; incomplete histories in family reconstitution - a sensitivity test of alternative strategies with historical Croatian data; family reconstitution and population reconstruction - two approaches to the fertility transition in France, 1740-1911; family reconstitution as event-history analysis. Part 3 Event-history analysis with historical data: techniques of event-history analysis; an attempt to analyze individual migration histories from data on place of usual residence at the time of certain vital events - France during the 19th century; some applications of recent developments in event-history analysis for historical demography; 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. Part 4 Simulating historical processes: simulation of change to validate demographic analysis; estimating numbers of kin in historical England using demographic microsimulation; my brother's keeper - modelling kinship links in early urbanization. Part 5 New sources, new techniques: coarse and refined methods for studying the fertility transition in historical populations; the last emperors - an introduction to the demography of the Qing (1644-1911) imperial lineage; historical demography from the census - applications of the American census microdata files; excess mortality in youth.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780198287933
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Clarendon Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0198287933
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 1993
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Returnable: N


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