Décès de jure, décès de facto : l’impact des présents et des absents non enregistrés sur les taux de mortalité urbaine en Belgique au début du XXe siècle

Unregistered temporary migration can create large discrepancies between death rates according to the legal, factual or habitual residence of the deceased. The most accurate death rates are those that refer to population numbers based on habitual residence, as they concern the population fully exposed to the hazards of a specific municipality. Using the Belgian population census, the register of vital events and individual death certificates, we calculate the death rates of the population with habitual residence in three large Belgian cities (Brussels, Liege and Schaarbeek) around 1910 and comp... Mehr ...