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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 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.
This volume is an important study in demographic history. Garrett, Reid, SchÜrer and Szreter use techniques and approaches drawn from demography, history and geography to explore the conditions under which declines in both infant mortality and fertility within marriage occurred in England and Wales between 1891 and 1911. Extensive use is made of previously unavailable census data drawn from thirteen communities in England and Wales, particularly those from the 1911 "fertility" census. The book's sometimes surprising conclusions will be of interest to all historians of Britain and of demography.
The Conference on Demography of Incomplete Data: Own Children
Methodology, Past and Present was organized by the Northeast Asia
Economic Forum (NEAEF) in collaboration with the East-West Center
and the College of Social Sciences of the University of Hawai‘i
at MÄnoa, in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, on 2 July 2018, in view of
continuing and expanding activities in the use of the methodology
in new areas such as the European countries as well as in
historical demography. The own-children methodology for estimating
fertility has a long history going back to the 1960s and has been
applied in an increasing number of countries and areas globally for
which the census and survey data are available. In assessing the
methodological paper "The Own-Children Approach to Fertility
Estimation: An Elaboration," by Lee-Jay Cho, the United Nations
Manual X: Indirect Techniques for Demographic Estimation stated
that "probably the greatest innovation introduced by the proponents
of the own-children method is the exploitation of seldom-used
census information for fertility estimation purposes." In the
course of the numerous applications beginning with the United
States for the countries of East and Southeast Asia and the
Pacific, such as Korea, Japan, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia, the
own-children method was extended, improved, and elaborated by
demographers at the East-West Population Institute (EWPI), and in
1987 resulted in the publication of a long-enduring volume The
Own-Children Method of Fertility Estimation by Lee-Jay Cho, Robert
Retherford, and Minja Choe. Subsequent methodological extensions
and refinements were made possible with Norman Luther and others.
The Conference highlighted historical background, expanding
applications, and most recent developments in the own-children
methodology, and at the same time celebrated the success and
sustainability of the methodology achieved by the contributions of
those dedicated demographers cited in this proceedings volume.
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