Studies dealing with the demographic events of any given period from the early historical up to World War I.
Comprehensive surveys, notes of sources, and items on the state of research. Particularly concerned with the period before modern vital registration was introduced and censuses were taken. Historical items that primarily pertain to one specific demographic variable are classified first under the specific heading and then cross-referenced to this heading.
65:20547 Smitka, Michael.
Historical demography and labor markets in prewar Japan.
Japanese Economic History, 1600-1960, Vol. 3, ISBN 0-8153-2707-2. LC
98-9507. 1998. xxi, 226 pp. Garland: New York, New York/London,
England. In Eng.
This is the third volume in a series presenting
selections of previously published studies on aspects of Japanese
history. This volume is concerned with historical demography and labor
markets and includes the following papers: Infanticide in early modern
Japan? Demography, culture, and population growth, by Laurel L.
Cornell; Why are there no spinsters in Japan?, by Laurel L. Cornell;
Peasant migrants in the economic development of nineteenth-century
Japan, by Mark Fruin; Business cycles and the outflow of labor from the
agricultural sector, by Yoshitaka Hatai; Two centuries of mortality
change in Central Japan: the evidence from a temple death register, by
Ann Bowman Janetta and Samuel H. Preston; Formation of the census
system in Japan: 1871-1945--development of the statistical system in
Japan proper and her colonies, by Yoshiro Matsuda; Demographic
transition in Japan, by Carl Mosk; Redundancy utilized: the economics
of female domestic servants in pre-war Japan, by Konosuke Odaka;
Demographic transition in the process of Japanese industrialization, by
Hiroshi Ohbuchi; and The labor force in Meiji economic growth: a
quantitative study of Yamanashi prefecture, by Arlon R.
Tussing.
Correspondence: Garland Publishing, 717 Fifth
Avenue, Suite 2500, New York, NY 10022. Location: Population
Council Library, New York, NY.
Applications of demographic methodology to the records of the past. Relevant items are coded here and, if of more general interest than to historical demography alone, are cross-referenced to N. Methods of Research and Analysis Including Models.
65:20548 De Santis, Gustavo; Livi Bacci,
Massimo. Population reproduction: a method of breakdown
and estimation. Population: An English Selection, Vol. 10, No. 2,
1998. 245-66 pp. Paris, France. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"This article shows how, working with a number of loose
hypotheses, a classic measure of the reproduction rate...can be broken
down into a series of multiplicative components, each of which reflects
a specific dimension (intensity or frequency) of nuptiality, mortality,
fertility and, if required, migration.... A number of simple algorithms
are proposed for calculating the mean [maternal] age at birth and for
estimating the proportion of women who are married at this age. An
application to England, France and Germany establishes the existence
and the characteristics of their respective demographic regimes in the
[seventeenth] and [eighteenth] centuries."
For a French
version, see 64:20254.
Correspondence: M. Livi Bacci,
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento Statistico,
Viale Morgagni 59, 50134 Florence, Italy. E-mail: livi@sta.ds.unifi.it.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
