The Female Population of France in the 19th Century : : A Reconstruction of 82 Departments / / Etienne Van de Walle.

In analyzing the social and economic factors underlying the decline of fertility in nineteenth-century France. Etienne van de Walle found that official statistics for the period were incomplete and inaccurate. He thus undertook a full reconstruction. In this volume, he presents a detailed discussion...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1974
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Office of Population Research ; 1697
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Physical Description:1 online resource (506 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Maps and Figures
  • Part One. METHODS
  • CHAPTER 1: The Background
  • CHAPTER 2: The Data
  • CHAPTER 3: Reconstruction of the Female Population by Age
  • CHAPTER 4: Reconstruction of the Female Population by Marital Status
  • CHAPTER 5: The Total Female Population of France
  • CHAPTER 6: Patterns of Bias in the Departements
  • CHAPTER 7: Main Trends of Fertility and Nuptiality by Département
  • CHAPTER 8: Some Additional Results of the Reconstruction on Mortality and Migration
  • Conclusion
  • Part Two. RESULTS
  • 1. Technical Notes on the Reconstruction of Individual Départements
  • 2. The Data, by Département
  • 3. Présentation de l'Ouvrage au Lecteur Français
  • References, including Official Statistical Sources
  • Geographical Index