Case study on the population born at the 18th century in Jablonec (Czech lands) - application of the survival analysis of individual data
Abstract
Historical data of population of the Czech lands have been studied only through the traditional methods of historical demography (e. g. family reconstitution method) so far. However, these data offer many possibilities of application of other methods, which are commonly used in demographic analysis of contemporary data, for example the survival analysis.
Aim of the paper is to show the aplication of survival analysis on the reproductive behavior of people born at the 18th century. The studied data came from individual records from parish registers from Jablonec, one of the industrial township in the northern part of the Czech lands.
The studied time period was special because of the economic and social changes. The time durations from birth/marriage to marriage/birth of first child/death are studied.