Fading family lines - Women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th, and 21st century Northern Sweden
Abstract: In our study we examined the extent and why specific family lines die out. We studied the late 19 th -century population of the Skellefteå region of northern Sweden and all their descendants, accounting for emigration. This was done across four generations who were observed from 1885 to 20...
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ftstockholmunfig:oai:figshare.com:article/9778685 2023-05-15T17:44:24+02:00 Fading family lines - Women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th, and 21st century Northern Sweden Martin Kolk Vegard Skirbekk 2019-09-06T14:04:54Z https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.9778685.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Fading_family_lines_-_Women_and_men_without_children_grandchildren_and_great-grandchildren_in_19th_20th_and_21st_century_Northern_Sweden/9778685 unknown doi:10.17045/sthlmuni.9778685.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Fading_family_lines_-_Women_and_men_without_children_grandchildren_and_great-grandchildren_in_19th_20th_and_21st_century_Northern_Sweden/9778685 CC BY 4.0 CC-BY Sociology Demography not elsewhere classified fertility preservation Childlessness Lineage Kinship 19th century Historical Demography Sweden ‘Stockholm Reports in Demography’ Sociologiska institutionen Department of Sociology SUDA Stockholm University Demography Unit Stockholms universitets demografiska avdelning Text Preprint 2019 ftstockholmunfig https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.9778685.v1 2021-09-24T18:47:26Z Abstract: In our study we examined the extent and why specific family lines die out. We studied the late 19 th -century population of the Skellefteå region of northern Sweden and all their descendants, accounting for emigration. This was done across four generations who were observed from 1885 to 2007. The first generation in our sample consists of men and women born between 1885-1899 (N=5,850) and we identify their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We find that almost half, 48%, of the first generation did not have any living descendants (great-grandchildren) by the end of the study period. The risk of a family line ending was driven primarily either by low fertility or death during reproductive ages in the first generation. Those who left few descendants in the first generation had increased risks of not having descendants in later generations. Both high- and low-status occupational groups had greater levels of not leaving any descendants. Almost all lineages that made it to the third generation also made it to the fourth generation. Report Northern Sweden Stockholm University: Fighsare |
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Sociology Demography not elsewhere classified fertility preservation Childlessness Lineage Kinship 19th century Historical Demography Sweden ‘Stockholm Reports in Demography’ Sociologiska institutionen Department of Sociology SUDA Stockholm University Demography Unit Stockholms universitets demografiska avdelning Martin Kolk Vegard Skirbekk Fading family lines - Women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th, and 21st century Northern Sweden |
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Abstract: In our study we examined the extent and why specific family lines die out. We studied the late 19 th -century population of the Skellefteå region of northern Sweden and all their descendants, accounting for emigration. This was done across four generations who were observed from 1885 to 2007. The first generation in our sample consists of men and women born between 1885-1899 (N=5,850) and we identify their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We find that almost half, 48%, of the first generation did not have any living descendants (great-grandchildren) by the end of the study period. The risk of a family line ending was driven primarily either by low fertility or death during reproductive ages in the first generation. Those who left few descendants in the first generation had increased risks of not having descendants in later generations. Both high- and low-status occupational groups had greater levels of not leaving any descendants. Almost all lineages that made it to the third generation also made it to the fourth generation. |
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Fading family lines - Women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th, and 21st century Northern Sweden |
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Fading family lines - Women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th, and 21st century Northern Sweden |
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Fading family lines - Women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th, and 21st century Northern Sweden |
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