Summary of periods, demographic indicators and case counts Scania (Sweden), St. Lawrence Valley (Quebec), Saguenay (Quebec), and Utah
Descriptive statistics (means and percentages), Maternal Grandmother, by region and birth intervals Scania, Quebec-St. Lawrence, Quebec-Saguenay Lac St. Jean and Utah, 1650-1900
Descriptive statistics (means and percentages), Paternal Grandmother, by region and birth intervals Scania, Quebec-St. Lawrence, Quebec-Saguenay Lac St. Jean and Utah, 1650-1900
Table 4: Women's risk of next birth, by maternal grandmother status Scania, Quebec and Utah, 1650 - 1900, Abridged Table
Table 5: Women's risk of next birth, by paternal grandmother status Scania, Quebec and Utah, 1650-1900, Abridged Table
Women's risk of next birth, by select characteristics Scania, Quebec-St. Lawrence, Quebec-Saguenay Lac St. Jean and Utah, 1650-1900, full table
Women's risk of next birth, by select characteristics Scania, Quebec-St. Lawrence, Quebec-Saguenay Lac St. Jean and Utah, 1650-1900, full table
Oskar Burger is Senior Research Manager and head of the Quantitative Best Practices Team at OMNI Institute, an applied social science consultancy. He received his PhD in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico in 2011 and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research from 2012 to 2015. He has worked on topics such as aging, population growth, global public health, and program evaluation.
Ronald Lee is an Emeritus Professor of Demography and Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, with a 1967 MA in Demography from Berkeley and a 1971 Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. His interest in intergenerational transfers in contemporary human societies led him to begin working on evolutionary theories of aging, mathematical life history theory and the evolution of social organization across species.
Rebecca Sear is a demographer, anthropologist and human behavioural ecologist who works on questions of demographic and public health interest, including fertility and reproductive development, child health and mortality, and health inequalities; with a particular interest in how family relationships influence these outcomes. She is co-Founder of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, and currently Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London.