Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: Banens (Maks).- Demographic Reconstitution of French départements During the Nineteenth Century This paper describes the methods used in the reconstitution of past populations for French départements during the nineteenth century, developed mainly by Etienne van de Walle and Noël Bonneuil. It begins by outlining two different approaches on which reconstitution methods are based and suggests some methodological hypotheses. It continues with an explanation of how these methods were applied to a selected département, Hérault. The underlying hypotheses, the results obtained from them, and their margins of error are analyzed at every stage of the reconstitution. In the second part of the article a reconstitution method which takes account of criticisms is presented. The basic approach uses van de Walle's method but incorporates, as did Bonneuil, the number of deaths in each age group. Although this method was designed for application to nineteenth-century populations, the approach can also be applied to other populations for which our knowledge is incomplete.
Source: Population
DOI: 10.2307/1534630
Author: Maks Banens
Language: French
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4327879814