Rectangularization revisited: variability of age at death within human populations.
A study was conducted to examine variability of age at death within human populations. Findings indicate that this variability has decreased from about 65 years to 15 years since 1751 in Sweden. It is noted that most of this decline took place between the 1870s and the 1950s. It is revealed that,...
| Publicado en: | Demography Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 475 - 496 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
November 1999
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