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SUMMARY:CED Seminar - Samuel Sundvall
DESCRIPTION:Contact: madeleine.jarl@ekh.lu.se\n\nSamuel Sundvall at Umeå U
 niversity\, will present a seminar titled:SES or Region – Comparing the 
 Demographic Transition in Sweden and the POPLINK Database (co-authors J Ju
 nkka\, G Sandström)Samuel Sundvall (umu.se)Overview:Changes in social and
  occupational structure – the shift from agrarian to industrial and serv
 ice economies – were key drivers of the first demographic transition. Ho
 wever\, it is unclear how much of the regional variation in the timing and
  pace of the mortality and fertility declines can be attributed to SES com
 position\, and how much reflects within-SES differences in demographic beh
 aviour shaped by local environments\, institutions and cultures.&nbsp\;Mos
 t historical studies either focus on SES gradients within regions or on re
 gional patterns without explicitly separating compositional change from wi
 thin-group change. This paper uses microdata from the POPLINK database to 
 decompose regional differences in the demographic transition into componen
 ts attributable to changes in SES structure versus within-SES differences.
  The POPLINK database\, covering parishes in Västerbotten county\, offers
  an ideal case for this analysis. The region industrialised later than sou
 thern Sweden\, maintained a larger agrarian population into the twentieth 
 century\, and has been characterised as demographically distinctive - yet 
 the sources of this distinctiveness have not been systematically analysed.
 &nbsp\;The aim is to assess whether differences in SES composition are rel
 ated to variation in mortality and fertility during the first demographic 
 transition from 1850-1950\, using a counterfactual comparison of the POPLI
 NK Västerbotten population with national Swedish patterns. Thereby\, we m
 ake two contributions. First\, we provide a systematic demographic profile
  of the POPLINK Västerbotten population from 1850 to 1950\, documenting m
 ortality\, fertility\, and age structure relative to the national Swedish 
 series. This establishes POPLINK as a well-characterised resource for demo
 graphic research and clarifies how this population relates to broader Swed
 ish patterns. Second\, we quantify the extent to which SES composition acc
 ounts for regional demographic differences during the first demographic tr
 ansition\n\nMore information about the event: https://www.lusem.lu.se/cale
 ndar/ced-seminar-samuel-sundvall
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LOCATION:Ideon Alfa1:2003 Scheelevägen 15B 223 63 Lund
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