title: The fertility transition in nineteenth-century England and Wales:  a social class model?
abstract: "The changing relationship between fertility and the standard of living is examined in the long term.  The model presented provides a means of focusing on the cross-sectional association between fertility, especially marital fertility, and social class during the nineteenth-century fertility transition in England and Wales.  An inverse relationship is revealed by all four of the perspectives adopted, but the problems inherent in defining social classes and the significance of fertility behaviour particular to occupations diminish the value of very broad generalizations."
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Woods
mesh_terms: D001723:Birth Rate; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004739:England; D005060:Europe; D005298:Fertility; D006280:Health Workforce; D007182:Income; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009790:Occupations; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011788:Quality of Life; D012106:Research; D012923:Social Class; D012942:Social Sciences; D012946:Social Welfare; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D006113:United Kingdom; D014852:Wales
keywords: Demographic Factors; Demographic Transition; Demography; Developed Countries; Differential Fertility; Economic Factors; England; Europe; Fertility Measurements; Fertility--changes; Historical Demography; Historical Survey; Human Resources; Income; Longitudinal Studies; Marital Fertility--changes; Models, Theoretical; Northern Europe; Occupations; Population; Population Dynamics; Quality Of Life; Research Methodology; Social Class; Social Sciences; Social Welfare; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Studies; United Kingdom; Wales