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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Szoltysek, Mikolaj
• Gruber, Siegfried
• Klüsener, Sebastian
• Goldstein, Joshua R

Titel

Spatial Variation in Household Structures in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Ist Teil von

• Population (France), 2014-01, Vol.69 (1), p.55-80

Ort / Verlag

Paris: Institut National d'études Démographiques

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nineteenth-century Germany was very socioeconomically and culturally diverse. Was the country's major east-west divide reflected in the spatial distribution of household structures? Mikolaj SZOLTYSEK, Siegfried GRUBER, Sebastian KLÜSENER and Joshua GOLDSTEIN draw on the census of 1885 to answer this question, using data published for the 83 regions and smaller states to build an indicator of household complexity based on the mean number of marital units per household. Taking advantage of the homogeneity of their data at national level, they reveal spatial disparities marked by a north-south rather than an east-west pattern, with greater household complexity in the north of the country. This disparity can be associated in structural terms with economic and socioeconomic characteristics of the regions, notably with spatial variation in agricultural employment, fertility and age structure.