scholarly journals Measuring Migration Status Based on the Place of Marriage Overestimates the Share of Male Migrants in Historical Populations. Evidence From Dutch Marriage Certificates

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 140-144
Author(s):  
Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge ◽  
Paul Puschmann
Keyword(s):  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Original Source ◽  
Male Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Birth Place ◽  
Female Migrants ◽  
Demographic Behavior ◽  
Large Databases ◽  
Historical Sample ◽  
Robustness Check

Thanks to the construction of large databases such as LINKS and GENLIAS based on Dutch civil certificates, our knowledge of individual demographic behavior in the past has improved significantly. However, the use of such research infrastructures also introduces some potential pitfalls, as these databases do not contain all information available from the original sources. For instance, variables that are available on the original source but lacking in LINKS are the places of residence of the bride and the groom at marriage. A common practice among researchers using LINKS and GENLIAS is therefore to identify migrants by comparing an individual’s birth place with the place of marriage. The place of marriage, however, is not necessarily identical to the place of residence, because couples traditionally contracted their marriage in the bride's or bride's parents' municipality of residence. It is therefore particularly likely that grooms are erroneously considered as migrants even though they had never moved before marriage. In this paper we explore whether this poses a problem to studies using the place of marriage as an equivalent to the place of residence. This will be achieved with the help of the marriage certificates release from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN), which, unlike LINKS, contains both the place of marriage of the couple and the residence of the bride and groom, and allows us to compare the findings derived from both approaches. The analyses show that identifying migrants based on place of marriage causes indeed a significant overestimation of male migrants, but not of female migrants. We therefore suggest the use of a couple's place of first childbirth as a robustness check to avoid overestimating male migration in the past.

Fragments of the Past, Tasks for the Future: Spanish in the United States

PMLA ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 115 (7) ◽  
pp. 1961-1964
Author(s):  
James D. Fernández
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

In december 1826, a young bostonian on a grand tour of Europe received a letter from his father, offering the following advice: “Such are the relations now existing between this country and Spanish America that a knowledge of the Spanish is quite as important as French. If you neglect either of these languages, you may be sure of not obtaining the station which you have in view.” The son received the letter in Paris, heeded his father's advice, and headed straight for Madrid. Some four months later he would write back from the capital of Spain, “I have not seen a city in Europe which has pleased my fancy so much, as a place of residence” (Helman 340).

Czech and Slovak Families in the European Context

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jitka Rychtaříková
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Great Stability ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
Demographic Behavior ◽  
Marked Decline ◽  
European Standards ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Southern European Countries

During the past two decades most of the developed countries of Europe have witnessed changes in such family-related demographic phenomena as nuptiality, divorce, and fertility. For the time being, the Czech and Slovak Republics continue to exhibit patterns established earlier in history. Marriage is universal and is contracted at young ages. Children are born to young parents and at short childbirth intervals. The proportion of childless women is below ten percent, which is comparatively low. The eight percent of children born out of wedlock is comparatively low by European standards. Longitudinal indicators are characterized by great stability. As a result of recent profound political, social, and economic changes, it is reasonable to expect changes in demographic behavior as well. The first of these may be a marked decline in fertility along the lines already experienced by southern European countries.

The Quality of Census Data for Historical Inquiry: A Research Agenda

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Steckel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Databases ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Approaches To Study

Quantitative historians who mine diverse sources of evidence usually fret over the quality of their raw materials. Most papers that introduce new sources of data attempt to explain who originally collected the evidence, why it was collected, and how the actual use of the data may differ from the original intentions. These discussions often include estimates of omissions or biases in the records and may explain the sensitivity of results to underlying assumptions.With a few notable exceptions, scholars have given surprisingly little attention to the quality of census data (see Ginsberg 1988; Furstenberg et al. 1979; Sharpless and Shortridge 1975). This neglect is remarkable in view of the public debate over the accuracy of the modern censuses, the conventions of scholarly scrutiny that apply to other types of records, and the widespread use made of census documents by nearly all disciplinary approaches to study of the past. Stimulated in part by the declining costs of entering and managing large databases, historians have intensively used the manuscript schedules of population for the nineteenth century, and numerous projects were recently completed or are planned for those of the early twentieth century (e.g., Ruggles and Menard 1990). Researchers have also made considerable use of additional schedules collected by the U.S. census beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, including those for slaves, manufacturing, and agriculture.

Migration in India: A Review

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Indian Population ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Economic Gain ◽  
The Past ◽  
Demographic Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Migration in India has received increased scholarly attention in the past forty years, assisted by additional categories of data collected through the National Census. Considering the volume of both internal and international migration, the Indian population is relatively immobile. Most movements occur locally; 60 percent of internal migration is rural-rural on an intra-district level, consisting primarily of women moving with their husbands after marriage. Next in importance is the rural-urban migration of males seeking economic gain. The few studies done on migrants' characteristics show migration to be highly selective of age, sex, marital status, education, occupation and caste. The specific role of poverty in causing migration is still under debate. Key areas for further research include a greater focus on immobility; the social and demographic consequences of migration on sending and receiving communities; and the social, economic and demographic behavior of the migrants.

PROVIDING TIMELY UPDATED SEQUENTIAL PATTERNS IN DECISION MAKING

2010 ◽  
Vol 09 (06) ◽  
pp. 873-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
TZUNG-PEI HONG ◽  
CHING-YAO WANG ◽  
CHUN-WEI LIN
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Real World ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Sequential Patterns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Databases ◽  
Real World Applications ◽  
Critical Task ◽  
Maintenance Process

Mining knowledge from large databases has become a critical task for organizations. Managers commonly use the obtained sequential patterns to make decisions. In the past, databases were usually assumed to be static. In real-world applications, however, transactions may be updated. In this paper, a maintenance algorithm for rapidly updating sequential patterns for real-time decision making is proposed. The proposed algorithm utilizes previously discovered large sequences in the maintenance process, thus greatly reducing the number of database rescans and improving performance. Experimental results verify the performance of the proposed approach. The proposed algorithm provides real-time knowledge that can be used for decision making.

Earliest historic reference of ’tinnitus’ is controversial

2004 ◽  
Vol 118 (7) ◽  
pp. 487-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Dietrich
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Original Source ◽  
The Past ◽  
Health History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Status

Tinnitus, that is defined as ’ringing in the ear’, is and has probably always been a very common phenomenon in the health history of mankind. A variety of pathomechanisms for its onset has been proposed in the past and this trend sees no stopping. Precise pathomechanisms still remain unclear. From the historical point of view, tinnitus is a very interesting topic but there is a lack of scientific enquiries. As its earliest historic reference, the Papyrus Ebers is often cited. By reviewing the original source, however, it is very unlikely that this contains the earliest historic reference of tinnitus. It is rather likely indeed that tinnitus was a known symptom in the ancient Egypt but it has never been exclusively been written down. This article reviews data provided by this fascinating historical period on the questionable reference and highlights the impact of history on the modern status of tinnitus.

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