| | xii | (4) |
| | xvi | |
| PART I | | 3 | (118) |
| | 3 | (16) |
| The scope of the present study |
| | 4 | (2) |
| The origins of the present study |
| | 6 | (6) |
| Family reconstitution and the estimation of the demographic characteristics of a population |
| | 12 | (5) |
| The organisation of the book |
| | 17 | (2) |
| 2 The reconstitution parishes |
| | 19 | (21) |
| The set of reconstitution parishes |
| | 20 | (4) |
| The start and finish problem |
| | 24 | (4) |
| The characteristics of the individual parishes |
| | 28 | (1) |
| | 29 | (1) |
| The final set of 26 parishes |
| | 30 | (10) |
| | 40 | (33) |
| The occupational structure of the reconstitution parishes |
| | 41 | (12) |
| A comparison of national totals of events and totals from the parish groups |
| | 53 | (17) |
| | 57 | (6) |
| | 63 | (4) |
| | 67 | (3) |
| What the tests of representativeness suggest |
| | 70 | (1) |
| Changes in the relative importance of parishes |
| | 71 | (2) |
| | 73 | (48) |
| Indirect evidence from totals of events in the reconstitution parishes |
| | 74 | (13) |
| Coverage of events in Anglican registers |
| | 87 | (4) |
| The completeness of Anglican registration in the reconstituted parishes |
| | 91 | (1) |
| Reconstitution data and the Registrar-General's early returns |
| | 92 | (18) |
| Infant and child mortality |
| | 93 | (4) |
| | 97 | (1) |
| | 98 | (1) |
| Internal consistency and demographic plausibility |
| | 98 | (1) |
| The evidence of the mid-nineteenth-century enumerators' books |
| | 109 | (1) |
| Delayed baptism and dummy births |
| | 110 | (6) |
| The processing of data taken from FRFs |
| | 116 | (1) |
| | 117 | (4) |
| PART II | | 121 | (394) |
| | 121 | (77) |
| The special characteristics of the reconstitution marriage data |
| | 126 | (2) |
| Nuptiality trends and characteristics |
| | 128 | (11) |
| The frequency distribution of age at marriage in bachelor/spinster marriages |
| | 139 | (9) |
| Other marriage rank combinations |
| | 148 | (3) |
| The age gap between spouses |
| | 151 | (3) |
| Marriage ages from reconstitution compared with the Registrar-General's returns |
| | 154 | (6) |
| Sources of bias in the estimation of age at marriage |
| | 160 | (4) |
| The changing relative frequency of different marriage rank combinations |
| | 164 | (2) |
| Marriage age and birth parity |
| | 166 | (5) |
| | 171 | (11) |
| Parochial trends and characteristics |
| | 182 | (12) |
| | 194 | (4) |
| | 198 | (156) |
| Mortality and economic circumstances |
| | 201 | (5) |
| Mortality, social conventions, and life styles |
| | 206 | (4) |
| The reconstitution data and techniques of analysis |
| | 210 | (4) |
| Infant and child mortality |
| | 214 | (66) |
| Overall patterns of infant and child mortality |
| | 214 | (3) |
| | 217 | (25) |
| The mortality of multiple births |
| | 242 | (6) |
| | 248 | (13) |
| Age patterns of mortality and model life tables |
| | 261 | (2) |
| Short-term changes in infant and child mortality |
| | 263 | (5) |
| Infant and child mortality in individual parishes |
| | 268 | (12) |
| | 280 | (13) |
| | 293 | (5) |
| Male and female mortality |
| | 298 | (3) |
| | 298 | (3) |
| | 301 | (6) |
| | 307 | (15) |
| | 322 | (25) |
| | 322 | (11) |
| The first two years of life |
| | 333 | (7) |
| The seasonal concentration of death |
| | 340 | (3) |
| Unconventional age divisions within the first two years of life |
| | 343 | (4) |
| | 347 | (7) |
| | 354 | (161) |
| The evidence from completed marriages |
| | 357 | (45) |
| The measurement of fecundity and fertility |
| | 357 | (4) |
| The duration of fecundity |
| | 361 | (11) |
| The variables determining fertility |
| | 372 | (3) |
| Change in the components of fertility over time |
| | 375 | (23) |
| Duration of marriage effects on fertility rates |
| | 398 | (1) |
| Parity progression ratios |
| | 398 | (4) |
| Particular influences on fertility characteristics |
| | 402 | (28) |
| | 402 | (10) |
| The fertility of different marriage rank combinations |
| | 412 | (5) |
| Fertility and age difference between spouses |
| | 417 | (4) |
| Prenuptially conceived births |
| | 421 | (6) |
| Fertility and `occupation' |
| | 427 | (3) |
| | 430 | (34) |
| Birth intervals and long-run fertility trends |
| | 430 | (19) |
| Conventional age-specific marital fertility rates |
| | 449 | (8) |
| The `natural fertility' question |
| | 457 | (4) |
| The credibility of fertility estimates derived from parish registers |
| | 461 | (3) |
| | 464 | (37) |
| The concept of fecundability |
| | 464 | (1) |
| Fecundability measured by the interval from marriage to first birth |
| | 465 | (7) |
| | 472 | (5) |
| Fecundability later in marriage |
| | 477 | (15) |
| Other aspects of fecundability |
| | 492 | (3) |
| | 495 | (2) |
| An alternative method of measuring fecundability later in marriage |
| | 497 | (4) |
| | 501 | (6) |
| | 507 | (8) |
| PART III | | 515 | (46) |
| 8 Reconstitution and inverse projection |
| | 515 | (30) |
| Generalised inverse projection and back projection |
| | 515 | (5) |
| | 520 | (11) |
| The effect of the new data on demographic estimates |
| | 531 | (2) |
| Changing the input parameters |
| | 533 | (1) |
| | 533 | (2) |
| The age structure of mortality |
| | 535 | (2) |
| | 537 | (2) |
| The new GIP estimates and reconstitution |
| | 539 | (6) |
| | 545 | (16) |
| APPENDICES | | 561 | (62) |
| 1 A list of the reconstituted parishes from which data were drawn and of the names of those who carried out the reconstitutions | | 561 | (2) |
| 2 Examples of the slips and forms used in reconstitution and a description of the system of weights and flags employed | | 563 | (6) |
| 3 Truncation bias and similar problems | | 569 | (5) |
| 4 Tests for logical errors in reconstitution data | | 574 | (4) |
| 5 Correcting for a `missing' parish in making tabulations of marriage age | | 578 | (3) |
| 6 The estimation of adult mortality | | 581 | (20) |
| 7 Adjusting mortality rates taken from the four groups to form a single series | | 601 | (9) |
| Infant and child mortality | | 601 | (1) |
| Adult mortality | | 602 | (8) |
| 8 The calculation of the proportion of women still fecund at any given age | | 610 | (3) |
| 9 Summary of quinquennial demographic data using revised aggregative data and produced by generalised inverse projection | | 613 | (4) |
| 10 Selection criteria used in compiling the tables in chapters 5 to 7 | | 617 | (6) |
| Bibliography | | 623 | (12) |
| Name index | | 635 | (3) |
| Place index | | 638 | (3) |
| Subject index | | 641 | |
