Alice Reid
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Historical demographer at CAMPOP, Geography Dept Cambridge University. See also http://PopulationsPast.org. Views my own.
Based on newly published research: Emily Chung, ‘Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester’, The Historical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X251012
Or read more about it in her Campop blog on the topic: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...
Or read more about it in her Campop blog on the topic: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge
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October 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Based on newly published research: Emily Chung, ‘Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester’, The Historical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X251012
Or read more about it in her Campop blog on the topic: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...
Or read more about it in her Campop blog on the topic: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...
In fact we do use the term 'birth rate', for certain types of rate, eg crude birth rate - births per 1000 people. 'Fertility rates' generally relate births to the people at risk of having them, ie women or women in particular age groups
August 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
In fact we do use the term 'birth rate', for certain types of rate, eg crude birth rate - births per 1000 people. 'Fertility rates' generally relate births to the people at risk of having them, ie women or women in particular age groups
I agree it's confusing, but in demography, fertility refers to achieved births, and the term for the ability to become pregnant is fecundity.
August 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I agree it's confusing, but in demography, fertility refers to achieved births, and the term for the ability to become pregnant is fecundity.
The Demographic Transition Model is a useful shorthand for the fall from high birth and death rates to low, but not as a model for how it happens. 4/4
July 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The Demographic Transition Model is a useful shorthand for the fall from high birth and death rates to low, but not as a model for how it happens. 4/4
During the period usually thought of as the first Demographic Transition in England (1870-1930) fertility fell faster than mortality and the population growth rate was slowing ... 3/4
July 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
During the period usually thought of as the first Demographic Transition in England (1870-1930) fertility fell faster than mortality and the population growth rate was slowing ... 3/4