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THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL STATUS AND MIGRATION ON FEMALE AGE AT MARRIAGE IN AN HISTORICAL POPULATION IN NORTH-WEST GERMANY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

E. VOLAND  and
R. I. M. DUNBAR
E. VOLAND
Affiliation:
Zentrum fur Philosophie und Grundlagen der Wissenschaft, Universitat Giessen, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10 C II, D-35394 Giessen, Germany
R. I. M. DUNBAR
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX
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Abstract

It has been suggested that parish-based reconstitution studies may underestimate the true age at marriage because they do not normally include data for emigrants who may be expected to behave differently from individuals who remain in their natal parishes. This study uses data from C18-19th parish registers of north-west Germany to estimate the difference in age at marriage between leavers and stayers. The difference is not significant for males; although that for females is significant, it is small and the consequence of failing to include migrants is likely to be negligible for most studies. However, it is shown that there is also an independent effect on age at marriage that is due to the woman's natal social (economic) status; historical demographic studies that ignore this dimension may risk confounding two different effects.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , July 1997 , pp. 355 - 360
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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