Measuring Fertility with the 1901 Canadian Census: A Critical Assessment

Gavreau, D; Gossage, Peter; Gingras, Lucie

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“…Il faut également considérer que les âges aux décès ne sont pas tous exacts au jour près étant donné que les dates de naissance, telles que déclarées par le chef du ménage lors du recensement, ne sont pas nécessairement justes. Néanmoins, si l'on se fie à Gauvreau et al (2000), cette situation ne serait pas alarmante puisqu'il y aurait un manque réel de cohérence entre la date de naissance issue des registres paroissiaux et celle du recensement de 1901 pour seulement 2,2 % à 3,3 % des enfants âgés de 0 à 5 ans.…”

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Conditions de vie durant l’enfance et longévité : évaluation d’une base de données créée à partir du recensement canadien de 1901 et de l’état civil québécois1

Pilon-Marien

Gagnon

Desjardins

et al. 2010

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Plusieurs études montrent que les conditions de vie vécues dans l’enfance peuvent avoir un effet à long terme sur la santé et la mortalité. Cette niche n’ayant pas été explorée pour la population canadienne, nous avons mis sur pied un projet visant le jumelage du recensement canadien de 1901 et des actes de décès de l’état civil québécois dans le but d’établir l’âge au décès d’enfants pour lesquels il existait des informations socio-économiques. Le but de la présente contribution est de tester la validité des données collectées en les comparant avec des tables de mortalité calculées à l’aide des données issues de la Base de données sur la longévité canadienne (Université de Montréal), et d’examiner des sources de biais potentiels. Parmi les biais potentiels, nous avons évalué la possibilité d’un effet de sélection dans l’échantillon à l’aide d’une régression logistique dans laquelle nous avons introduit plusieurs variables explicatives de la mortalité aux grands âges. Le but recherché étant de savoir si ces variables ont à leur tour un impact sur le fait de trouver ou non un acte de décès.It has been suspected for a long time that early life conditions could affect adult mortality, and scholars endorsing a life course perspective have recently reported compelling evidence for the “long arm of childhood.” As this niche has not yet been developed in the Canadian context, we have established a record-linkage project tracing the early life conditions of individuals who were listed as children in the 1901 Canadian Census and Quebec’s death records. This paper focuses on the difficulties involved in the linkage process and on how selection biases may affect findings. First, we compare mortality patterns from our samples to the mortality tables derived from the Canadian Human Mortality Database at the Université de Montréal. Second, using logistic regression, we build a sample selection model for which the outcome is whether a death record is found. Many of the predictors included in this model (sex, urban-rural status, father’s occupation, literacy, etc.) will also be used in our future models predicting mortality at older ages, helping us to assess potential biases and their impacts on findings

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Conditions de vie durant l’enfance et longévité : évaluation d’une base de données créée à partir du recensement canadien de 1901 et de l’état civil québécois1

Pilon-Marien

Gagnon

Desjardins

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“… 1 Similar children ever born and children surviving questions were asked in the 1911 censuses of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (Connor 2017; Garrett et al 2010) but not prior to 1941 in Canadian censuses (Charles, 1948; Gauvreau et al 2000). …”

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“…When French-Canadian individuals in the census were linked with their marriage record in Quebec, their kinship network could also be identified. Once located in Manchester, 1 Similar children ever born and children surviving questions were asked in the 1911 censuses of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (Connor 2017;Garrett et al 2010) but not prior to 1941 in Canadian censuses (Charles, 1948;Gauvreau et al 2000).…”

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Migration, Kinship and Child Mortality in Early Twentieth-Century North America

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This article appraises kin availability and migration timing on French-Canadian child mortality in an early twentieth-century North American industrial city. The analysis is based on the exploitation of an original dataset constructed by linking the 1910 census data (IPUMS-Full Count) for Manchester, New Hampshire to Quebec Catholic marriage records (BALSAC) and geocoding census data at the household level (Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps). Our results suggest that the presence of maternal and paternal grandmothers in the city living in different households were associated with reduced child mortality and that French-Canadian women who arrived in the United States as children or young adults experienced higher child mortality compared to second-generation French Canadians and those who migrated at a later age.

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“…CWR is the only fertility measure that can be estimated for all our populations without a heavy computing input and parsimonious assumptions about the underlying mortality patterns. Despite certain caveats of this measure, in the absence of more direct information, it may be an advisable and efficient index of reproductive behaviour (e.g., Gauvreau, Gossage, & Gingras, ; Scalone & Dribe, ). The kin availability index suggested by Palloni () could be included in the model specification, but we decided not to do it for reasons of greater concurrence with models suggested in Ruggles (, ).…”

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“One size does not fit all”: Spatial nonstationarity in the determinants of elderly residential isolation in historicalEurope

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Ogórek

Poniat

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The extent of elderly residential isolation from kin varied considerably between European historical societies, but few attempts have been made to understand these patterns systematically across space. So far, large-scale accounts of factors underlying these patterns have calibrated a global model based on a single regression equation, thus implicitly assuming that the relationships between elderly living arrangements and their correlates are spatially constant. Drawing on insights from quantitative geography, we hypothesise that the relationships between living arrangements and meso-level characteristics varied significantly over space provoking different responses to the same stimuli at different locations. We confirm this hypothesis by applying geographically weighted regression to data on 277 regional populations across historical Europe and demonstrating that these relationships were indeed spatially contingent. Our bottom line results suggest that in historic Europe, there were regions distinct not only in terms of the magnitude of living without kin but also with respect to the underlying determinants of levels of residential isolation.

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Measuring Fertility with the 1901 Canadian Census: A Critical Assessment

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Conditions de vie durant l’enfance et longévité : évaluation d’une base de données créée à partir du recensement canadien de 1901 et de l’état civil québécois1

Conditions de vie durant l’enfance et longévité : évaluation d’une base de données créée à partir du recensement canadien de 1901 et de l’état civil québécois1

Migration, Kinship and Child Mortality in Early Twentieth-Century North America

“One size does not fit all”: Spatial nonstationarity in the determinants of elderly residential isolation in historicalEurope

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