Transformation of the French Demographic Landscape, 1806-1906
1997, 256 pages 1 Introduction
1.1 Population Dynamics from Historical Data
1 1.2 Limiting the Study to the Female Gender
1.3 On the Tracks of Etienne Van de Walle
1.4 The Data -
1.5 Organization of the Book
I Reconstruction
2 Reconstruction Methods: A Brief Review
2.1 Reconstruction from Parish Registers
2.2 Reconstruction from Censuses and Vital Statistics
3 Book-keeping Coherence
3.1 Correction of Tables
3.2 Principles of Correction
3.3 Analysis of Errors
3.4 Book-keeping Coherence: Conclusion
4 Demographic Coherence of SGF Tables
4.1 Census Dates
4.2 First Treatment of the Poor Quality of the Censuses
4.3 First Correction of Vital Statistics
5 Reconstruction of the Population
5.1 Van de Walle’s Method
5.2 A Dynamic Reconstruction of the French Population by Département, 1856-1906
5.3 Reconstruction of the Population from 1801 to 1856
II Results and Dynamics
6 Perspectives on France as a Whole
6.1 Population Size
6.2 Mortality and Fertility
6.3 Age Pyramids
6.4 Correcting Under-Registration Alters our View of the Transition
7 The French Transition of Fertility
7.1 Diffusion Effects in the Fertility Transition
8 Changing Mortality, Migration, and Populations
8.1 Mortality
8.2 Net Migration
8.3 Birth Under-Registration
8.4 Mean Age of Women
8.5 Population Growth Rates
8.6 The French Demographic Landscape: from Description to Systemic Analysis
9 Scope of the Transition
9.1 Principal Component Analysis for the Description of Multi- Dimensional Numerical Data
9.2 The Structured French Space
9.3 A Model of Transition
9.4 Inter-Related Trends: the Co-Integration Approach
10 Conclusion: The Feminine Population in the Nineteenth Century
10.1 Reconstructing and Correcting
10.2 A Spatio-Temporal Portrayal of the French Transition
10.3 Improving Local Conditions Starts the Decline, before Innovation Takes its Own Rhythm
A Some Other Examples of Smoothing Operations
B References of the Data
C Some Numerical Results
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