How Many Household Formation Systems Were There in Historic Europe? A View Across 256 Regions Using Partitioning Clustering Methods.
This paper reconsiders one of historical demography's most pertinent research problems: the fiddly concept of historical household formation systems. Using a massive repository of historical census micro-data from the North Atlantic Population Project and the Mosaic project, the four markers of Hajn...
| Publicado en: | Historical Methods Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 53 - 77 |
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