{"title":"[Demographic transformation in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: early fertility decline and the theory of the \"demographic transition\"].","authors":"P Demeny","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The author attempts to expose and explain important elements of the demographic transition in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in the last third of the nineteenth century. This is done on the basis of regional differences and time differences of the Coale-Indices (Index of marital fertility, Index of proportion married and Index of overall fertility).\" The author considers the differences between marital fertility in rural Hungary and in industrial Austria at the beginning of the demographic transition (SUMMARY IN ENG)</p>","PeriodicalId":84560,"journal":{"name":"Demographische Informationen","volume":" ","pages":"37-44, 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22034739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Current data on population and employment: current trends in demographic development in the year 1984].","authors":"P Findl","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84560,"journal":{"name":"Demographische Informationen","volume":" ","pages":"81-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Life with children: desire and reality].","authors":"R Munz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article is a summary of a larger study designed to analyze the desire for children, reproductive behavior, and family formation in Austria, as well as the consequences of family formation for the living conditions of women. The findings of the study are also published in a 1985 book edited by R. Munz. Data for the study are from interviews conducted in 1978 and 1981-1982 with 2,000 women who had married in 1974 or 1977. Additional in-depth interviews were carried out with 40 women. Findings are presented regarding \"desired family size and number of children; employment of women and mothers; the every-day lives of women and the division of labor in the family; patterns of relations in the family; contraception and family planning; [and] perspectives on family policy.\" (summary in ENG)</p>","PeriodicalId":84560,"journal":{"name":"Demographische Informationen","volume":" ","pages":"56-68, 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Marriages, divorces, and number of children: life tables on the family life cycle in Austria].","authors":"W Lutz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A multistate life table approach to the analysis of the family life cycle is outlined. \"After calculating one-dimensional nuptiality and divorce tables and presenting a recently developed model of a fertility table based on parity, a multi-state model is described in which the cells represent all possible combinations of marital status and parity.\" The model is applied to data from the 1976 and 1981 micro-censuses of Austria. Findings regarding marriage, divorce, fertility, and fertility differentials by education are discussed. (summary in ENG)</p>","PeriodicalId":84560,"journal":{"name":"Demographische Informationen","volume":" ","pages":"3-20, 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[On the economy of \"wealth of people\": demographic-political theories in the Austria of enlightened absolutism].","authors":"T Wichtl","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This essay focuses on mercantilist theories and interpretations of demographic trends [in Austria] in the late 18th century.\" The writings of several mercantilist authors are summarized, and the influence of their views on population policy is discussed. It is noted that the official population policy, which aimed at fast population growth to strengthen the economy and increase the number of soldiers, was based on the mercantilist theory that greater population size means higher per capita incomes. (summary in ENG)</p>","PeriodicalId":84560,"journal":{"name":"Demographische Informationen","volume":" ","pages":"36-42, 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Short-term demographic fluctuations in the Croatian military border, 1830-1847: a contribution to historical demography].","authors":"E A Hammel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Crude birth, death and marriage rates are examined for [Austria's] Croatian military defence zone and 'cordon sanitaire' against Turkey for the period 1830-1847.... The data suggest that between about one and four fifths of the variance in long term swings and in annual fluctuations from the moving averages of birth, death, and nuptiality rates can be explained by a combination of linear trend over time, an epidemic year, and primarily three economic indicators: grain lagged by one year, grain in the report year (perhaps as a proxy for other plant production), and livestock in the report year.\" (summary in ENG)</p>","PeriodicalId":84560,"journal":{"name":"Demographische Informationen","volume":" ","pages":"21-35, 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Perinatal mortality in Austria: an analysis of social risk factors].","authors":"C Peutl","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social factors related to perinatal mortality are analyzed using log-linear models and data for a sample of 215 perinatal deaths that occurred in hospitals in Vienna, Austria, during 1978. A sample of 210 surviving children is used as a control group. \"The findings indicate that perinatal mortality decreases with higher education of mothers. Furthermore, the risk of perinatal mortality is considerably higher for those who have mothers above age 35.... For illegitimate births, the risk of death is twice that of legitimate births even when accounting for differential medical control during pregnancy.\" (summary in ENG)</p>","PeriodicalId":84560,"journal":{"name":"Demographische Informationen","volume":" ","pages":"43-8, 128-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[\"Paternity leave\"? Retrospective view on a delayed reform of maternity leave in Austria].","authors":"R Munz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84560,"journal":{"name":"Demographische Informationen","volume":" ","pages":"104-8, 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22034763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Children as a burden, children as a joy: theses on family formation and number of children].","authors":"R Munz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This article surveys significant changes in fertility and nuptiality in Central and Western Europe since the middle of the 19th century. In this context the secular decline in birth rates is understood as a consequence of changes in the social structure as well as of diffusion of social norms.\" It is noted that for the period after 1920, and especially after 1950, no \"determinants\" exist that can completely explain fluctuations in marriages and births. \"Hence, the central thesis of this article is the following: There is no stable pattern of family formation in a modern industrial society and the number of children is not directly linked to mortality conditions or economic constraints. Subsequently, the article develops several hypotheses concerning the significance of marriage and parenting in the late 20th century, and points out that ups and downs in marriages, divorces, and births may be seen in analogy to other fashion-like processes (such as consumer behavior or social behavior).\" (summary in ENG)</p>","PeriodicalId":84560,"journal":{"name":"Demographische Informationen","volume":" ","pages":"2-20, 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22034765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}