The Social Demography of Hungarian Villages in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (With Special Attention To Sárpilis, 1792-1804)

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ID6080137
AuthorsRudolf Andorka (Department of Sociology of the University of Economics, Budapest, Hungary), Sandor Balazs-Kovác, Sandor Balazs-Kovács (University of Pécs, Hungary)
Year1986
Volume11
Issue2
Pages169-192
Publication date1986-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/036319908601100204
PMID11611962
OpenAlexW2093565046
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited18

Nine family reconstitution studies of Hungarian villages in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries indicate the appearance of fertility control linked to low age at first marriage. Studies of household structure suggest considerable variance and a higher percentage of complex households than existed in northwestern Europe, as well as the growth of this percentage. These results are scrutinized in detail in the sources of the southern Transdanubian village of Sárpilis, where there was a clear tendency of households to become complicated and for birth control to appear in relatively poorer complex households. It is hypothesized that both growing household complexity and birth control were responses to the growing scarcity of arable land

Agriculture · Arable land · Archaeology · Birth control · Developed country · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Historical demography · Population · Research methodology · Scarcity · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies

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