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| Malthus' Preventative Checks | Can keep the balance—“moral restraint” means no marriage until you can afford as many kids as you might have (and no sex outside of marriage) |
| Malthus' Positive Checks | mortality) keeps the balance—people will have children until some starve. If a woman’s nutrition drops a little bit she won’t have as many kids. Mortality will keep the population from growing exponentially |
| Rate | Refers to the occurrence of events over a given interval in time. Birth rate, death rate, migration rate |
| Census | Counts and characteristics, first national census of US and its territories—just a count, by household, by sex, race, and free status (used to put people in congress). Complete count of population, collect information from every person |
| Population Register | Based on the individual and their demographic events like birth, movement, divorce, death etc. |
| Administrative Statistics | Data collected for some reason not related to demographics like tax records, local deed records, or housing records |
| Enumeration | To count and usually refers to a census |
| Doubling Time | The amount of time it takes for the population to double. Doubling Times Equation = 70/the growth rate of a country |
| Population Register | All demographic events |
| Fertility vs Fecundity | Fertility—Number of births in a given place or time. Fecundity—Ability for individual to bear a child |
| Plato | 360 BC. Population stability more important than growth |
| Caesar | oDoesn’t matter if its Julius or Augustus oRoman empire • Fought lots of wars need lots of people •Annex, obviously •Pronatalist •Developing laws and structures that encouraged people to have children |
| Graunt | oThe Father of Modern Demography oWe’re in the renaissance era oFirst known analyses of population data using modern statistical methods oFirst life table oAnalyzed mortality statistics from London |
| Quesnay | oFrench physician oPost mercantilism oNumber of people depends on wealth, not other way around •More or fewer children based on resources available to them oPrecursor to the physiocratic school of thought •The wealth of a nation depends on the land of a nation |
| Godwin | oAnother mid-18th century precursor to modern population theory oMary Shelly’s father o Food supply increases but population won’t b/c people will limit kids in order to ensure prosperity |
| Fertility | Number of births in a given place or time |
| Fecundity | Ability for individual to bear a child |
