Duration of Marriage, Fertility and Women's Employment Opportunities in England and Wales in 1911

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ID4267197
AutoresN F R Crafts, Nicholas Crafts (0000-0002-1885-6240, University of Warwick, autor correspondente)
Ano1989
Volume43
Fascículo2
Páginas325-335
Data de publicação1989-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPopulation Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0032472031000144146
PMID11621873
OpenAlexW1991658411
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21

Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is shown that a substantial number of couples used birth control for ‘spacing’ as well as for ‘stopping’ fertility. Moreover ‘spacing’ of births appears to have been more widespread in districts in which women's employment opportunities were relatively good. In general, the results obtained do not fit with the Princeton view of the European fertility transition with its stress on parity-specific family limitation spreading in response to improvements in contraceptive information and technology

Birth control · Census · Demographic economics · Duration (music) · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Parity (physics) · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes