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Family formation and social mobility

Family formation and social mobility. Life courses in Amsterdam 1850-1940. Sources. Census: general figures Historische steekproef Nederland/Historical Sample of Netherlands Birth certificates: 1860-1922 Population register: family composition and characteristics Marriage certificates

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Family formation and social mobility

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  1. Family formation and social mobility Life courses in Amsterdam 1850-1940

  2. Sources • Census: general figures • Historische steekproef Nederland/Historical Sample of Netherlands • Birth certificates: 1860-1922 • Population register: family composition and characteristics • Marriage certificates • Death certificates • More: dossiers of the social security, tax registers

  3. Life courses • Choices in life • Transitions: movements, marriage, leaving home, choice of profession • Transitions have a timing • Relate transitions to family characteristics and position of individual in family.

  4. Research questions • What explains changes in life courses and social mobility? • Focus on family circumstances and individual transitions • Possible relations: • Does family size influence chances of social mobility? • Does age of marriage influence chances social mobility? • Decline in death rate in family? birth control

  5. Demographic transition Background • Declining death rates • Conscious birth control • Lowering of age of marriage • Increase in number of people married

  6. Causes and consequences • Better life conditions (hygiene, water supply, medicine|) • Higher wages • New economic opportunities • Women withdraw from labour market, spent more time on the family • Children as investment goods: education makes sense

  7. GIS • Changes of address: spatial mobility in time • New families: spread or concentration? • Characterize quarters in the town: social categories, population, births, deaths, migrants • New quarters vs old quarters • Location of work and family

  8. Population Amsterdam 1815-1940

  9. Vital statistics

  10. Marriage Fertility

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