Patriarchy, family system and kin effects on individual demographic behavior throughout the life course : East Asia, 1678-1945

Abstract

Chapter 2 'Big' Historical Data and Comparative Methodology 1. Five East Asian Populations Comparison and comparability lie at the heart of social science. 1 But, precise comparison is virtually impossible without similar methods and similar data. Comparable historical datasets are especially scarce. Until very recently, this was particularly true for micro-level data on social and demographic behavior in past populations. Section 1 introduces the five East Asian individual-level historical population panel datasets employed in this study, and Section 2 focuses on the harmonization and melding of these data, as well as the general comparative methodology. 1.1. Overview This thesis research makes use of five large-scale multigenerational individual-level panel datasets constructed based on historical household registers: the China Multi

Historical Chinese Microdata. 40 Years of Dataset Construction by the Lee-Campbell Research Group

“…Fertility fell during times of hardship, that is when grain prices were high or when there were climatic shocks (Campbell & Lee, 2010a;. Dong (2016) also studied the role of local family system in moderating the influence of co-resident kin on reproduction between East Asian populations.…”

“…As we describe below in our summary of findings, Hao Dong lead-authored comparisons of family contextual influences on mortality in Liaoning and Taiwan in China and northeast Japan using pooled household register data from all three locations (Dong, 2016;Dong et al, 2017).…”

Interethnic marriage in Northeast China, 1866–1913

“…Previous studies using the CMGPD-SC and CMGPD-LN establish these datasets as valuable source for studying social, economic, and demographic history (Chen 2017;Dong et al 2015;Dong 2016;Lee and Campbell 1997). The suitability of the registers for studying marriage has already been demonstrated in studies of community and household influences on the chances of marrying or remarrying (Chen, Campbell, and Lee 2014;Campbell and Lee 2008a;Dong 2016).…”

“…The suitability of the registers for studying marriage has already been demonstrated in studies of community and household influences on the chances of marrying or remarrying (Chen, Campbell, and Lee 2014;Campbell and Lee 2008a;Dong 2016). Other studies have used the CMGPD-SC and the related CMGPD-LN to examine stratification and demographic behavior Lee 2008b, 2011;Chen 2017;Chen, Lee, and Campbell 2010).…”

A historical community approach to social homogamy in the past

“…The latter is a difficult but not impossible task, as is evinced by the very recent availability of Asian data. These Asian data come in part from sources different from those used for Europe and North America (Campbell & Lee, 2008Dong, 2016;Dong, Campbell, Kurosu, Yang, & Lee, 2015;Lee & Yoo, 2018;Lundh & Kurosu, 2014;Song & Campbell, 2017). On the one hand, occupations are less frequently stated in Asian sources, for men and certainly for women, and one needs to explore how best to use this information when making international comparisons.…”