Finnish fertility since 1722
Subtitle: lessons from an extended decline
By: Lutz Wolfgang.
Series: Publications of the Population Research Institute. Series D,; no. 18, 1987; Publications of the Population Research Institute.; no. 18.
Publisher: Population Research Institute at the Finnish Population and Family Welfare Federation in collaboration with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Helsinki, Finland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Fertility, Human -- Finland -- History.; Finland -- Population -- History.
Description: An analysis of fertility trends in Finland since 1722 is presented. The emphasis is on the macro-level, but consideration is also given to the micro-level family reconstruction approach and to the qualitative social historical approach. "Methodologically this analysis goes beyond previous studies in developing a model for reconstructing 18th and 19th century marriage patterns, modifying the index of family limitation in a way to use overall age-specific rates instead of marital ones, applying distributed-lag models to the analysis of the interactions between fertility and child mortality, and using multi-variate techniques to analyze short term and long term determinants of fertility trends." (Excerpt).
Notes: Bibliography: p. 99-111.