Population Projections and Demographic Knowledge in France and Great Britain in the Postwar Period
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4121893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E A Marshall (0000-0001-6171-4312, Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 271-300 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00047.x |
| OpenAlex | W2142434711 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
This study examines how official national population projections-a key mechanism for the production and dissemination of demographic knowledge-contributed to differing interpretations of population and fertility trends in France and Great Britain in the decades following World War II, despite these countries' similar fertility rates during most of this period. Projections presented different visions of the demographic future in the two countries. In France, publication of multiple variants emphasized future contingency, with low variants illustrating future population decline due to prolonged below-replacement fertility. In Britain, publication of a single variant, assuming near-replacement-level fertility rates, projected moderate growth. National population projections thus created divergent representations of the two countries' demographic futures: an ever-present threat of population decline in France, and a reassuring image of stability in Britain. Two principal mechanisms that contributed to cross-national differences in population projections-national demographic history and institutional configurations-are discussed
Birth rate · Demographic analysis · Demographic statistics · Demographic transition · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Period (music · Population · Population growth · Population momentum · Population projection · Projections of population growth · Research methodology · Sociology · Sub-replacement fertility · Total fertility rate · Demography · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
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The State and the Family
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France's New Deal
The Politics of Motherhood
The Interpretation of Population Statistics
The State and Economic Knowledge
The World Demographic Transition
The New Population Statistics
France Faces Depopulation
Procreating France
Economists and Societies
Marianne et les Lapins
Adolphe Landry on the Demographic Revolution
Numbering the People; The Eighteenth Century Population Controversy and the Development of Census and Vital Statistics in Britain
The Registrar-General's Quarterly Return for England and Wales
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Demographic Research in Britain 1936-1986
A Sociology of Quantification
Perspectives sur les populations
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |