China's Fertility Transition through Regional Space: Using GIS and Census Data for a Spatial Analysis of Historical Demography
| Autor: | Yuan Jianhua, Mark J. Henderson, G. William Skinner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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China
History Geographic information system media_common.quotation_subject Public Policy Fertility Sample (statistics) Space (commercial competition) Space (mathematics) Regional science Economic geography Demography media_common business.industry Transition (fiction) Historical demography Censuses History 20th Century Census Geography Geographic Information Systems business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Social Science History. 24:613-652 |
| ISSN: | 1527-8034 0145-5532 |
| DOI: | 10.1215/01455532-24-3-613 |
| Popis: | Key features of reproductive behavior in China vary systematically through space and time. In this article we present an analysis of fertility change in regional space, using a 1% household sample from China’s 1990 population census. Elsewhere,we use the same data to analyze reproductive strategizing, but here we pursue the big picture with a straightforward analysis that takes reported births as an uncomplicated indicator of fertility.The article has three objectives: first, to introduce a novel, multilevel spatial model of regional structure constructed using a geographic information system (GIS); second, to demonstrate the potential for longitudinal data derived from onetime censuses to contribute to historical demography in conjunction with regional analysis; and third, to document the manner in which China’s fertility transition has unfolded in regional space. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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