The object of this paper is to show that it is possible to reconceptualize virtually all family reconstitution data in ways that make event-history analysis possible. A practical example is given using data on marriage and fertility from Gillespie County, Texas, for the period 1846-1910. The results indicate that family reconstitution data are particularly well suited to event-history analysis. In this paper I explore alternative strategies for dealing with incomplete marriage histories in the study of fertility by family reconstitution, and explicitly test two of them. The study is based on some 220,000 records of baptisms, burials, and marriages from seven adjacent parishes in Slavonia, Croatia, for the period 1714-1898.
Analysis is restricted to fertile first marriages with at least one child.
In the present paper we present some indirect methods of estimating population size, fertility, mortality, and nuptiality, and discuss the validity of the methods used in the light of the results obtained. The data are from parish registers from New Castile, Spain, for the period from the early sixteenth century to 1900. Three standard populations are used to calibrate Populate, a hypothetical data set constructed by McGirr and Rutstein, Wrigley and Schofield's back projection of the population of England, and Sundbarg's data for Sweden for the period 1750-1875. Generalized inverse projection. This method encloses both inverse projection and back projection and seems to be applicable to a variety of problems in population reconstruction, interpolation, and data correction.