Trends and factors of fertility in Canada / by Jacques Henripin.: CS99-541/1972E-PDF
"It is but a short time since human societies have sought to violate nature in handing on human life, to borrow an expression from Moheau. Even though diverse birth control methods may have been public knowledge for a very long time, the use of such methods has always been limited to restricted categories within human societies. Obviously, the fertility of human populations has long been indirectly governed by social custom bearing on age at marriage, pre-nuptial chastity, remarriage and diverse sexual prohibitions, but it was only at the end of the eighteenth century that the birth rate of an entire population (the French) dropped because couples voluntarily limited the size of their family. ..."--Intro.
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| Department/Agency | Statistics Canada. |
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| Title | Trends and factors of fertility in Canada / by Jacques Henripin. |
| Series title | 1961 Census monograph |
| Publication type | Monograph |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
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| Note(s) | "One of a series of 1961 census monographs prepared for the Census Division." Digitized edition from print [produced by Statistics Canada]. Issued also in French under title: Tendances et facteurs de la fécondité au Canada. Includes bibliographical references. |
| Publishing information | Ottawa : Statistics Canada (Dominion Bureau of Statistics), 1972. |
| Author / Contributor | Henripin, Jacques,1926- |
| Description | xxx, 421 p. : ill., graphs. |
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| Subject terms | Census data Population Fertility |