Deliberate Birth Spacing in Nineteenth Century Northern Sweden
International audience Fertility in nineteenth century Europe before the fertility transition has been described as high, unregulated, and stable; the extent of fertility control remains a controversial topic. The aim of this study is to determine whether there is evidence of deliberate birth spacin...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-00618175v1 2023-05-15T17:44:18+02:00 Deliberate Birth Spacing in Nineteenth Century Northern Sweden Kolk, Martin Department of Sociology, Demography Unit Stockholm University 2011-01-22 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00618175 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00618175/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00618175/file/PEER_stage2_10.1007%252Fs10680-011-9228-z.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-011-9228-z en eng HAL CCSD info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s10680-011-9228-z hal-00618175 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00618175 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00618175/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00618175/file/PEER_stage2_10.1007%252Fs10680-011-9228-z.pdf doi:10.1007/s10680-011-9228-z info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00618175 European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie, 2011, 27 (3), pp.337-359. ⟨10.1007/s10680-011-9228-z⟩ Fertility control Fertility transition Europe Birth control Historical demography Birth spacing Contrôle de la fécondité Transition de la fécondité Contrôle des naissances Démographie historique Espacement des naissances info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2011 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-011-9228-z 2020-12-26T05:30:59Z International audience Fertility in nineteenth century Europe before the fertility transition has been described as high, unregulated, and stable; the extent of fertility control remains a controversial topic. The aim of this study is to determine whether there is evidence of deliberate birth spacing in northern Sweden prior to the onset of the fertility transition. This study analyses micro-level parish records of 9,636 women in nineteenth century northern Sweden--a remote but, at the time, economically dynamic frontier region of Sweden. Event history analysis reveals evidence of birth spacing that suggests some conscious birth control. Piecewise exponential models of the transition from second to third birth reveal circumstances in which parents increased or decreased the time to next birth. The results on the survival of previous children, geographic context, sex of previous children, and variations in grain prices all indicate that parents deliberately manipulated the spacing between births. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie 27 3 337 359 |
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International audience Fertility in nineteenth century Europe before the fertility transition has been described as high, unregulated, and stable; the extent of fertility control remains a controversial topic. The aim of this study is to determine whether there is evidence of deliberate birth spacing in northern Sweden prior to the onset of the fertility transition. This study analyses micro-level parish records of 9,636 women in nineteenth century northern Sweden--a remote but, at the time, economically dynamic frontier region of Sweden. Event history analysis reveals evidence of birth spacing that suggests some conscious birth control. Piecewise exponential models of the transition from second to third birth reveal circumstances in which parents increased or decreased the time to next birth. The results on the survival of previous children, geographic context, sex of previous children, and variations in grain prices all indicate that parents deliberately manipulated the spacing between births. |
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Deliberate Birth Spacing in Nineteenth Century Northern Sweden |
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Deliberate Birth Spacing in Nineteenth Century Northern Sweden |
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Deliberate Birth Spacing in Nineteenth Century Northern Sweden |
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Deliberate Birth Spacing in Nineteenth Century Northern Sweden |
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Deliberate Birth Spacing in Nineteenth Century Northern Sweden |
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