McCaa, Robert.
[Los Angeles : University of California [at] Los Angeles] 1978, c1979
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Notes:
- Ph. D. University of California at Los Angeles 1978
- Committee chair: Robert N. Burr.
- Includes vita.
- Copyright by Robert Edward McCaa, Jr., 1979. –Page [i]
- Includes bibliographical references (leaves 415-427).
- Preface. — Chapter I. The demographic transition in the Petorca Valley — The demographic transition paradigm — The Chilean experience — Fertility change in the Petorca Valley — Modernization in Petorca — Chapter II. Petorca, pueblo of the past — Selection of study site — Land tenure, settlement patterns and migration — Mining in Petorca — Public employment — Chapter III. Marriage — Trends in Chilean marriage patterns — The marriage transition in the Petorca Valley — Single mothers and natural families — Chapter IV. Family beginnings and bridal pregnancy — Premarital conception experience of Petorca brides — Determinants of family formation patterns — Chapter V. Fertility and the demographic transition — Illegitimate fertility — Assessment of error and bias for marital fertility — Evolution of marital fertility patterns in the Petorca Valley — Fertility differentials — Hard times and fertility decline — The fertility transition in Petorca — Decline of infant and child mortality — Increases in marital fertility — Conscious family limitation — Chapter VI. Conclusions — Modernization and the demographic transition in the Petorca Valley — Social, economic and attitudinal inter-relations with fertility change — The demographic transition in Chile — Appendix I. Assessment of errors and bias — Representativeness of family histories — Linkage problems — Terminating histories of the most recent cohorts — Birth registration — Marriage records — Death inscriptions — Appendix II. Methods and procedures — Appendix III. Description of datasets.
Subjects:
- Demographic transition — Chile.
- Population geography — Chile.
- Petorca River Valley (Chile) — History.
- Petorca River Valley (Chile) — Population.
- History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
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