Old and New Methods in Historical Demography.

Abstract

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.