Information on deaths in the Poznań parish of St. Mary Magdalene for the years 1874-1900, derived from civil death records (Poznań_city district)

<p>The files contain selected individual information on deaths for the years 1874-1900, derived from civil death records (Poznań_city district). The information was selected on the basis of street names in order to obtain a territory overlapping with the area of the parish of St Mary Magdalene. The aim of this procedure was to maintain the continuity of the records from the parish registers after 1874.</p><p><br /></p><p>The main aim of the project is to investigate the long-term social consequences of adverse conditions experienced in early life (prenatal and early child development) by society in historical times. The following questions call for research: whether and to what extent did the extreme conditions occurring in early life influence intergenerational mobility? Whether and to what extent did they limit the chances of social mobility/ social advancement through marriage, occupational, and military careers? The goal will be achieved with the use of a model population, represented by the population of Poznań residents from the 1840s to the end of the 19^th century, varied in terms of denomination, social and economic strata, and underwent political, economic, and social changes at that time. The analysis will be based on the reconstructed histories of individuals from birth to marriage and/or death, which will allow capturing the social changes occurring in their life through marriage and/or acquired profession.<span style="color:black"> </span>The socioeconomic status (SES)<span style="color:black"> of an individual at birth and in adulthood will be reconstructed. </span>Intergenerational changes in social status between parents and their adult children will be compared. <span style="color:black">The most critical stages of early life development, encompassing fetal and early childhood period, will be estimated</span>. To reconstruct the living conditions in early life, <span style="color:black">local </span>economic and demographic<span style="color:black"> rates will be assigned to this period:</span> <span style="color:black">prices and consumption of potatoes and meat (as proxies for the level of nutrition during the fetal and early childhood period), the level of unemployment and mortality of infants and children up to 5 (as proxies for the stress level in family/ society)</span>. <span style="color:black">The research results will be an important step in understanding the relationship between social costs in adulthood and adverse conditions in the earliest stages of life. </span></p><p><br /></p>