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of great interest, so much the more so as the Table Archives in these points do
not give sufficient guidance. The combination of civil status with age and sex
was first introduced into the Swedish census of 1870. Gustav Sundbarg’s brilliant
attempt to effect such a hypothetical combination for the time between 1750 and
1780 can naturally never be anything more than a hypothesis. His assumption
that marriage=fecundity during the whole of this time underwent only casual
variations and no secular evolution, seems to me — on account of the certainly
as indicated above, much too insufficiently worked up material from the diocese
of Västerås — to be somewhat doubtful. But on the other hand Sundbärg is
certainly right in his assertion that there are errors in the tables respecting division
of age and sex of the population, especially for the earlier ages.
After the Provincial Archives were established at the beginning of this century,
the possibility of studying the parish registers has been very much facilitated.
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