The Jacobson Life Table of 1850
A Critical Reexamination from a Massachusetts Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4838150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maris A Vinovskis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 703 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/203083 |
| PMID | 11632292 |
| OpenAlex | W1967058543 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Perspective Most scholars approach life tables with considerable trepidation. The figures appear precise yet formidable, and the columns labeled nmx, nqx, and Ix seem so mysterious and incomprehensible that few individuals care or dare to penetrate their actual meaning. Yet life tables are an indispensable tool for social historians-not only providing information on the overall levels of mortality, but also as a crucial ingredient for reconstructing the hypothetical experiences of a cohort of individuals traced through their life course. In the hands of skilled demographers, these life tables help to recapture the experiences of ordinary individuals which might be otherwise lost.1 Since the construction of life tables usually depends on the availability of information on the number of deaths by age as well as the age structure of the population, few life tables are available for nineteenth-century America because most states had not developed a comprehensive system for registering deaths.2 As a result, one of the few existing life tables for the mid-nineteenth century, Jacobson's Life Table of 1850, has become the
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2025 (47) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |