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Demographic Patterns and Transitions in 18-20Th Century Hungary A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Őri, Péter Working Paper Demographic Patterns and Transitions in 18-20th Century Hungary. County Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun in the Late 18th and Early 20th Centuries Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare, No. 10 Provided in Cooperation with: Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest Suggested Citation: Őri, Péter (2007) : Demographic Patterns and Transitions in 18-20th Century Hungary. County Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun in the Late 18th and Early 20th Centuries, Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare, No. 10, ISBN 978-963-235-282-4, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/226453 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. 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COUNTY PEST-PILIS-SOLT-KISKUN IN THE LATE 18 TH AND EARLY 20 TH CENTURIES by Péter Őri 2007 CONTENTS 1 Introduction ................................................................ ................................ 7 2 Aims and Methods ................................................................ ................................7 3 Sources ................................................................................................ ................................8 4 Location ................................................................................................ ................................9 5 Demographic Development in Pest-Pilis-Solt County in the Late 18 th Century (1774–1785) ................................................................ ................................13 6 Demographic Development in Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County in the 19 th and Early 20 th Century ................................ ................................ 20 7 Different Patterns of Demographic Behaviour between 1901 and 1910 ................................................................................................ ................................38 8 Conclusions ................................................................ ................................ 47 Sources ................................................................................................ ................................49 Bibliography ................................................................ ................................ 49 Appendix ................................................................................................ ................................52 List of Tables 1 Number and Average Size of Settlements by Districts (Pest-Pilis-Solt County in 1783 and Jászkun District in 1787) and Population Density (1787) ................................10 2 Population by Ethnicity (Spoken Language) and Denomination, Pest-Pilis-Solt County, 1774–1783 ................................................................ ................................ 11 3 Population by Ethnicity in Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, 1880–1910 (%) ................................11 4 Pest-Pilis-Solt County by the Size of Arable Land and Types of Farming, 1789 ................................12 5 Demographic Characteristics of Settlement Groups Generated by Cluster- analysis, 1774–1785 ................................................................ ................................ 14 6 Major Characteristics of the Clusters ................................................................ ................................15 7 Subtypes of Marriage and Household Formation in Pest-Pilis-Solt County in the Late 18 th Century ................................................................................................ ................................16 8 Princeton Indices of Fertility and Nuptiality, 1880–1910 ................................ ................................24 9 Princeton Indices of Fertility and Nuptiality, 1869–1910 ................................ ................................24 10 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County ................................ 26 11 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, Roman Catholics ................................................................................................ ................................27 12 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, Calvinists ................................27 13 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, Lutherans ................................28 14 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, Jews ................................29 15 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, Orthodox Serbs ................................................................................................................................30 16 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Buda, Pest and Óbuda (Budapest after 1873) ................................31 17 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Suburban Zone ................................ ................................32 18 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Danube Bend ................................ ................................33 19 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Pilis Hills ................................ ................................ 34 20 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Vác-Gödöll ő Hills ................................ ................................35 21 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Danube-bank ................................ ................................36 22 Crude Birth and Death Rates (‰), Great Plain ................................ ................................37 23 Characteristics of the Most Important Demographic Variables ................................ 39 24 Result of the Cluster-analysis: the Most Important Demographic Variables by Clusters, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, 1901–1910 ................................ ................................40 25 Significant Correlation Coefficients between Basic Demographic Variables, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, 1901–1910 ................................ ................................ 41 26 Summary of the Results of the Cluster-analysis, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, 1901–1910 ................................................................................................ ................................42 List of Figures 1 Districts of Pest-Pilis-Solt County by Types of Agricultural Land, 1789, % ................................12 2 Population by Denomination in the Major Clusters of Demographic Behaviour, 1774–1783, % ................................................................................................ ................................17 3 Number of Settlement by Ethnicity in the Major Clusters of Demographic Behaviour, 1774–1783, % ................................................................ ................................17 4 Basic Clusters of Demographic Behaviour by Types of Agricultural Land, 1789, % ................................18 5 Number of Settlement by Geographic Regions in the Major Clusters of Demographic Behaviour, 1774–1783, % ................................ ................................ 19 6 Crude Birth and Death Rates on the Present Territory of Hungary, 1820–1995 ................................23 7 Number of Births and Deaths and Population Size, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, 1828–1949 ................................................................ ................................ 25 8 Number of Births and Deaths and Population Size, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, Roman Catholics, 1828–1894 ................................................................ ................................26 9 Number of Births and Deaths and Population Size, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, Calvinists, 1828–1894 ................................................................ ................................27 10 Number of Births and Deaths and Population Size, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, Lutherans, 1828–1894 ................................................................ ................................28 11 Number of Births and Deaths and Population Size , Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, Jews, 1828–1894 ...............................................................
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