Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- APPENDICES
- 1 A list of the reconstituted parishes from which data were drawn and of the names of those who carried out the reconstitutions
- 2 Examples of the slips and forms used in reconstitution and a description of the system of weights and flags employed
- 3 Truncation bias and similar problems
- 4 Tests for logical errors in reconstitution data
- 5 Correcting for a ‘missing’ parish in making tabulations of marriage age
- 6 The estimation of adult mortality
- 7 Adjusting mortality rates taken from the four groups to form a single series
- 8 The calculation of the proportion of women still fecund at any given age
- 9 Summary of quinquennial demographic data using revised aggregative data and produced by generalised inverse projection
- 10 Selection criteria used in compiling the tables in chapters 5 to 7
- Bibliography
- Name index
- Place index
- Subject index
- Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
10 - Selection criteria used in compiling the tables in chapters 5 to 7
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- APPENDICES
- 1 A list of the reconstituted parishes from which data were drawn and of the names of those who carried out the reconstitutions
- 2 Examples of the slips and forms used in reconstitution and a description of the system of weights and flags employed
- 3 Truncation bias and similar problems
- 4 Tests for logical errors in reconstitution data
- 5 Correcting for a ‘missing’ parish in making tabulations of marriage age
- 6 The estimation of adult mortality
- 7 Adjusting mortality rates taken from the four groups to form a single series
- 8 The calculation of the proportion of women still fecund at any given age
- 9 Summary of quinquennial demographic data using revised aggregative data and produced by generalised inverse projection
- 10 Selection criteria used in compiling the tables in chapters 5 to 7
- Bibliography
- Name index
- Place index
- Subject index
- Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
Summary
The purpose of this appendix is to provide fuller specification of the tabular reconstitution material than can conveniently be presented in the main body of the book. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 contain the chief empirical findings of this book. The data were derived from information contained on family reconstitution forms, and the chapters deal respectively with nuptiality, mortality, and fertility. The tables which appear in the other chapters were simple counts of totals of events, or are fully described in the accompanying text, or were obtained from tabulations which parallel those used for the tables in chapters 5 to 7. Accordingly, the table specifications given below refer exclusively to tables in these three chapters.
The three main types of criteria which are reflected in the listed specifications relate to the degree of precision required in the data; to the wish to avoid truncation and censoring bias; and to conventions which reflect biological realities. An example of the first type is the requirement in the fertility chapter that the date of birth of the wife must be accurate to within a month. This rule ensures that, in the study of marital fertility, age is known with adequate precision. The requirement in tables 5.1 to 5.11 that the date of marriage should be at least 50 years after the start of the reconstitution is an example of the second type.
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- English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580–1837 , pp. 617 - 622Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997