Infant and child mortality, marital fertility, and family economy among peasants in Navarre (1860-1930)
Erdozain, P.; Mikelarena, F.
Boletin de la Asociacion de Demografia Historica 14(2): 83-114
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0213-1145 PMID: 12321157 Document Number: 307245
"This article analyzes the following four questions. Firstly, the evolutions of infant and child mortality and the evolution of marital fertility in rural Navarre changes around the size and the composition of the rural households in the central area of Navarre where the stem-family prevailed....Thirdly, the evolution of the quotient between the numbers of potentially active household members and the number of consumption units. Finally, the technical change effects concerning the family labor requirements: the agrarian mechanization process and the intensification of crops." (EXCERPT)