title: Reconstitution of annual life tables for nineteenth-century France.
abstract: "The nineteenth century was not one of runaway health progress, but it marked a deep transformation of mortality conditions [in France].  The reconstitution of mortality tables by single years of age and calendar years makes it possible to study this transformation in detail, and to distinguish between period fluctuations and structural changes.  In the present article, we have given preference to graphic representation, and purposely limited the statistics.... We have also given preference to the period approach."  Consideration is given to annual mortality trends, life expectancy, age-specific probability of dying, the war-related crisis years of 1813, 1871, and 1915, and differentials in mortality by sex.  Data generally concern the period 1806-1898.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mesle
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vallin
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe; D005602:France; D008017:Life Expectancy; D015993:Life Tables; D008136:Longevity; D008377:Maps as Topic; D009026:Mortality; D011057:Politics; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012737:Sex Factors; D012942:Social Sciences; D013997:Time Factors; D014857:Warfare
keywords: Age Factors; Demographic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Demography; Developed Countries; Differential Mortality; Europe; France; Historical Demography; Historical Survey; Length Of Life; Life Expectancy; Life Table Method; Maps; Mediterranean Countries; Mortality--changes; Political Factors; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Sex Factors; Social Sciences; Time Factors; War; Western Europe