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Emigrants and Immigrants , Ethnicity , Marriage , Social Class , Urbanization , Brazil/ethnology , Emigrants and Immigrants/education , Emigrants and Immigrants/history , Emigrants and Immigrants/legislation & jurisprudence , Emigrants and Immigrants/psychology , Emigration and Immigration/history , Emigration and Immigration/legislation & jurisprudence , Ethnicity/education , Ethnicity/ethnology , Ethnicity/history , Ethnicity/legislation & jurisprudence , Ethnicity/psychology , Family Characteristics/ethnology , Family Characteristics/history , Germany/ethnology , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Marriage/ethnology , Marriage/history , Marriage/legislation & jurisprudence , Marriage/psychology , Population Groups/education , Population Groups/ethnology , Population Groups/history , Population Groups/legislation & jurisprudence , Population Groups/psychology , Religion/history , Social Change/history , Social Class/history , Spouses/education , Spouses/ethnology , Spouses/history , Spouses/legislation & jurisprudence , Spouses/psychology , Urbanization/history , Urbanization/legislation & jurisprudenceSubject(s)
Demography , Religion and Medicine , Statistics as Topic/history , Brazil , History, Modern 1601-ABSTRACT
PIP: Reproductive patterns among Brazilians of German Lutheran descent are investigated using family reconstitution. Three separate cohorts are analyzed: those born during the periods 1866-1894, 1895-1919, and 1920-1939. A decline in the level of premarital conceptions and births is noted and its causes are analyzed. (SUMMARY IN ENG)^ieng
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Cohort Studies , Demography , Ethnicity , Illegitimacy , Reproduction , Americas , Brazil , Culture , Developing Countries , Family , Family Characteristics , Latin America , Population , Population Characteristics , Research , Social Problems , South AmericaSubject(s)
Demography , Religion and Medicine , Statistics as Topic/history , Brazil , History, Modern 1601-ABSTRACT
This report concerns a seminar on adult mortality and orphanhood in the past in Latin America that was held in San Jose, Costa Rica, December 12-14, 1984. The first part describes five historical studies presented at the seminar concerning Mexico, Chile, Peru, Brazil, and Argentina. "The second part of this article is an explanation of the calculation involved in a life table derived from information on the incidence of orphanhood according to the age of newly married couples on their marriage."