title: Thinking of England and taking care: family building strategies and infant mortality in England and Wales, 1891-1911.
abstract: "Debates concerning the origins and development of the late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century declines in marital fertility and infant mortality in England and Wales have been centred largely on the material provided by answers to the ¿special' questions in the 1911 census. In their published form these figures have restricted researchers to an examination of large scale geographic and social class differences in the levels and rates of decline of the two phenomena. This paper outlines research conducted on a sample of individual census returns from the 1911 census. From this data it becomes clear that for Victorian and Edwardian England ¿where one lived' was rather more important than ¿who one was' in determining both family building strategies and the survival of those children born."
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Garrett
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reid
mesh_terms: D001723:Birth Rate; D019352:Censuses; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004739:England; D005060:Europe; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005298:Fertility; D005843:Geography; D007226:Infant Mortality; D008136:Longevity; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D015996:Survival Rate; D006113:United Kingdom; D014852:Wales
keywords: Census; Census Methods; Child Mortality; Child Survival--determinants; Demographic Factors; Demographic Transition; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; England; Europe; Family And Household; Fertility; Fertility Decline; Geographic Factors; Historical Survey; Infant Mortality--determinants; Length Of Life; Marital Fertility--determinants; Mortality; Northern Europe; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Statistics; Research Methodology; Residence Characteristics; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Spatial Distribution; Survivorship; United Kingdom; Wales