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Solitary households and urban demography in a stem family society: Kyoto, 1843-1868
| In this paper we argue the importance of identifying solitary households and their impact upon demographic analysis. At the same time, we ask the significance of having solitary households in the data. What does this say about how households are registered and understood by the community and authorities? What does the presence of many solitaries say about the mechanisms for elderly care, or family control of courtship and marriage, especially in a purportedly stem-family society? For data we use the population registers of 12 or more neighborhoods in Kyoto compiled during the late Tokugawa period, 1843-1868. This analysis will allow us to test possible explanations for unexpected results of demographic analysis.
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