This is a history of the creation of the book Fatal Years: Child Mortality in late-Nineteenth-Century America (1991) by the authors. The data were a sample of households from the 1900 United States Census manuscripts. The primary method used was indirect estimation of child mortality (approximately ages 0–4) using information on the age and marriage duration of women. Among the findings were overall lower overall mortality than in the 1900/1902 Glover life tables for the Death Registration Area, and very large variations in mortality by race and size of place of residence.

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致命岁月：背景和后果

这是本书的创作史致命岁月：十九世纪末美国的儿童死亡率（1991）作者。这些数据是 1900 年美国人口普查手稿中的家庭样本。使用的主要方法是利用女性年龄和婚姻持续时间的信息间接估计儿童死亡率（大约 0-4 岁）。研究结果包括，死亡登记区的总体死亡率低于 1900/1902 年格洛弗生命表中的死亡率，而且不同种族和居住地大小的死亡率差异很大。