Dynamics of Population: Social and Biological Significance of Changing Birth Rates in the United States

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments v
• Contents vii
• Figures xi
• Part I Population Trends of American Groups 1
• Chapter I the Trend of the National Population 3
• Chapter II Fertility and Reproduction in Relation to Size of Community 22
• Chapter III Reproduction Trends Among Groups Classified by Race, Nativity, or National Origin 38
• Chapter IV Reproduction Trends of Groups Classified by Occupation or Economic Status 55
• Part II Measurable Characteristics of American Groups 97
• Chapter V Variations in Physical Development and Health Among American Groups 99
• Chapter VI the Cultural-Intellectual Background of American Stocks 113
• Chapter VII Variations in Cultural-Intellectual Development Among Racial and Regional Groups 126
• Chapter VIII Variations in Cultural-Intellectual Development Among Groups Classified by Occupation or Social Status 157
• Part III Influence of Differential Reproduction on the Characteristics of the American People 177
• Chapter IX Social Significance of Group Differentials 179
• Chapter X Biological Significance of Group Differentials 201
• Part IV the Causes and Control of Population Trends 253
• Chapter XI Physical and Medical Factors Affecting Fertility 255
• Chapter XII Economic and Social Factors Affecting Fertility 280
• Chapter XIII Possibilities of Social Control 328
• Chapter XIV Conclusions 340
• Appendices 349
• Appendices 350
• Appendix a Notes on the Measurement of Reproduction Trends 351
• Appendix D Registered Births Per Thousand Native White Women Aged 15-49 Years, New England States, 1856-1925 360
• Appendix E Per Cent of Native White Women of Native Parentage, Aged 15-44 Years, Reported as Married (not Widowed or Divorced), by States, 1900, 1930 361
• Appendix F Influence of Infiltration of New Stocks into Native Population of the Northeastern States on Fertility Rates in This Area 362
• Appendix G Demographic Factors Affecting the Rural-Urban Differential in Fertility 367
• Appendix H 371
• Appendix I Notes on Method of Obtaining Net Reproduction Indices for Occupational Classes from Birth And, Child Mortality Statistics 372
• Appendix J - Marital Condition of Gainfully Employed Males in Each Occupation with 100,000 or More Male Workers, 1900 376
• Appendix K Effective Fertility of Farm Population by Counties, in Relation to Average Value of Farm Products, 1929, or Average Value of Farms, 1930, Selected States 377
• Appendix L Intelligence Ratings of European Applicants for Immigration to the United States 379
• Appendix M Seven Indices of the Cultural-Intellectual Development of State Populations at the Time of the World War or the Fourteenth Census 381
• Appendix N Mental Deficiency in Men of Military Age, World War Period, for Whites and for Negroes, by States 382
• Appendix O Indices of Environmental Conditions of Total Forces and Neuropsychiatric Cases, in United States Army, World War Period 384
• Appendix P Distribution of Haggerty Intelligence Quotients of 6,688 Pupils, Grades Iii-Viii, New York Rural Schools, by Specific Occupation of Father 385
• Appendix Q 386
• Appendix R Normal Relation of Frequencies of Extreme Intelligence Quotients to Group Means 387
• Appendix S Supplementary Data on Fecundity from Davis Series 389
• Appendix V Life-Table and Fertility Data for New Zealand 393
• Appendix W Individual and Family Replacement Values 395
• Glossary 397
• Bibliographies 401
• Chapter IV Social Group Trends 408
• Chapter V Physical Development 411
• Chapters Vi, Vii, VIII Cultural-Intellectual Development 418
• Chapter IX Social Significance 426
• Chapter X Biological Significance 428
• Chapter XI Physical Causes 435
• Chapter XII Social Causes 438
• Index of Names 443
• Index of Subjects 449

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