Reconstitution de tables annuelles de mortalité pour la France au XIXe siècle
M es lé France and Vallin Jacques. - Reconstitution of Annual Mortality Tables in 19th Century France. Since the 1950's, as a result of work by Jean Bourgeois-Pichat. a series of triennial abridged tables of mortality centered on census years has become available. General trends are, therefore well known. However, it seemed useful to attempt to construct a complete series of mortality tables by single years of age for each calendar year, comparable to figures available for the 20th century. This would make it possible not only to trace the situation during the past century more accurately, but also to reconstitute the histories of many cohorts. With this object, we first calculated quinquennial age-specific mortality rates for each year by comparing the deaths recorded in the civil registers with the population in the middle of the year obtained by interpolating Bourgeois-Pichat's reconstituted figures. We then disaggregated these quinquennial rates into single years of age using the only two periods during the century (1851-1856 and 1896-1901) for which detailed data both from censuses and civil registers were available. Finally, for the period of the Napoleonic wars, we corrected these rates for military losses at different ages. The result was a complete series of annual tables from 1806 to 1898, covering almost all of the initial period of transition in life expectancy.
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1989
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Authors: | Vallin, Jacques ; Meslé, France |
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Population (french edition). - Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED). - Vol. 44.1989, 6, p. 1121-1158
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Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) |
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