A Reassessment of the Demography of Traditional Rural China

Autor:	Stoto Mo, Ansley J. Coale, Barclay Gw, Trussell Tj
Rok vydání:	1976
Předmět:	Mainland China education.field_of_study media_common.quotation_subject Total fertility rate Population Fertility General Medicine Demographic analysis Infant mortality Birth rate Geography Life expectancy education Demography media_common
Zdroj:	Population Index. 42:606
ISSN:	0032-4701
DOI:	10.2307/2734378
Popis:	An analysis of the composition characteristics and vital processes of the population of rural mainland China was undertaken using data collected as part of a study of land utilization carried out by Naking University in 1929-1931. These data have been reappraised using techniques for demographic analysis of faulty data which shows a consistent picture of the Chinese farmer of high morta moderate fertility and early and universal marriage. Estimates of the singulate mean age at marriage was 17.5 for females and 21.3 for males. Fewer than 1 in 1000 women and 3 in 1000 men never married. The reported parity of older women was only slightly above 5 which disputes the very large historical family size that has been imputed to the chinese. There was a life expectancy of less than 25 years for each sex and very high infant mortality. These characteristics were of sufficient persistence to have generated a stable age distribution.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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