Advanced statistical methods in historical demography - example on the population born at the 18th century in Jablonec (Czech Lands)
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, simple descriptive statistics) so far. However, individual historical data from parish registers offer many possibilities of application of other methods, which are commonly used in demographic analysis of contemporary data, for example the survival analysis, the Cox regression.
Aim of the paper is to show the application of survival analysis and Cox regression on the reproductive behavior of people born at the 18th century in Jablonec in the Czech lands. Durations between the birth and the death and between the wedding and the death are studied by survival analysis.
Birth-birth intervals are studied by Cox regression. This paper shows that advanced statistical methods are suitable for the analysis of historical data.
They confirm and extend traditional results.