Intra-ethnic diversity in Hispanic child mortality, 1890-1910.
Using a representative sample of the Hispanic population of the United States based on the manuscripts of the 1910 census, we estimate childhood mortality for the period from approximately 1890 to 1910. We find high child mortality in the Hispanic population, higher than for non-Hispanic whites but not significantly different than among nonwhite non-Hispanics (mostly African Americans). Hispanic rural farm populations in California, Texas, and Arizona experienced high mortality, but not as high as other Hispanic populations. Child mortality was very high among Hispanic residents of New Mexico and those in Florida outside Tampa; it was especially low in the Hispanic population in Tampa.
Gutmann
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Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin 78712, USA. myron@prc.utexas.edu
Haines
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Frisbie
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Blanchard
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D001741:Black or African American; D001130:Arizona; D002140:California; D019352:Censuses; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007615:Kansas; D015141:Los Angeles; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D009516:New Mexico; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012424:Rural Population; D013781:Texas; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People