The Declining Birth Rate in Rotterdam
A Statistical Analysis of the Drop in the Number of Children in 24644 Rotterdam Families During the Last 50 Years
Published on 1. January 1931
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 179 pages
978-94-017-0024-5 (ISBN)
Description
In the years after the war the problem of population and especially the birth-rate movements excited general interest in all countries. In the Netherlands also all kinds ot scientific men occupied themselves with this subject; not only economists, sociologists and theologians but also medical men studied the population problem in all its various aspects. It has appeared that it is only possible to obtain a complete analysis of the population problem by making a careful scientific investigation of every part of it. Evidently this was also the author's conception of the problem. By examining 25000 families he submitted the birth-rate movement of a large town to a scientific investigation. Neither political nor religious or other than scientific motives prompted him in undertaking this work; the examination was begun and ended quite objectively which lends this book its value. For only an objective examination of s~tch a complex phe- nomenon like the birth-rate movement is of importance for science. The examination was inspired by the working program of the I nterna- tional Union for the scientific Investigation of Population Problems.
It produces surprising results and shows in figures how natality presented itself in a metropolis like Rotterdam during the last fifty years. It is to be hoped that this study may be followed by many similar in- vestigations, also for the country.
It produces surprising results and shows in figures how natality presented itself in a metropolis like Rotterdam during the last fifty years. It is to be hoped that this study may be followed by many similar in- vestigations, also for the country.
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Edition
1931 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
4 s/w Abbildungen
XI, 179 p. 4 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
373 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-017-0024-5 (9789401700245)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-015-7559-1
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Julie Sanders is Lecturer in English at Keele University.
Content
General Survey.- I. Number of children and profession.- II. Number of children and religion.- III. Number of children, profession and religion.- IV. Number of children, profession and year of marriage.- V. Number of children, religion and year of marriage.- VI. Number of children, year of marriage and duration of marriage.- VII. Number of children and age at marriage.- VIII. Number of surviving children, year of marriage and duration of marriage.- IX. Small families and the system of substitution.- X. The children's religion compared with the parents' religion in mixed marriages.- XI. Interval between date of marriage and date of the first child's birth, in connection with profession, religion and year of marriage.- If Chapter XII. Conclusion.- Tables (Absolute numbers).- I. Families according to professional group and number of children.- II. Families according to religion and number of children.- III. Families according to professional group, religion and number of children.- IV. Families according to professional group, period of year of marriage and number of children.- V. Families according to religion, period of year of marriage and number of children.- VI. Families according to duration of marriage, period of year of marriage and number of children.- VII. Families according to age at marriage and number of children.- VIII. Families (I) according to duration of marriage (contracted after January 1, 1918), period of year of marriage and number of children alive.- IX. Families (II) according to duration of marriage (contracted before January 1, 1915), period of year of marriage and number of children alive.- X. Families according to birth interval and a child's death.- XI. Mixed marriages according to period of year of marriage, number of children andchildren's religion.- XII. Families according to professional group, religion, period of year of marriage and interval between date of marriage and date of 1st. child's birth.