Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
Poland's Demographic Past
Family Composition of Samogitian Peasants and Odnodvortsy based on Inventories from the Middle of the 19th Century
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2024.46-03
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| ISSN: | 0079-7189 |
| eISSN: | 2719-4345 |
| Authors: |
Laurynas
Giedrimas
Lithuanian Institute of History |
| Keywords: | Family household Samogitia in the middle of the 19th century historical demography |
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| Klasyfikacja JEL: | J12 |
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Abstract
The article analyzes the composition of peasant and odnodvortsy family households in mid-19th-century Samogitia (Raseiniai, Šiauliai and Telšiai districts), based on data from the 1845–1856 Imperial Russian stateowned estate inventories. Using Laslett and Hammel’s (1974) typology, widely used in historical demography, families were classified as solitaries, no family, nuclear, extended and multiple-family households. In order to identify the factors that determined family composition, families were classified based on their social category (peasant or odnodvortsy families) as well as their economic status (tyaglye (serfs), polutyaglye (semi-indentured laborers), ogrodniki (plot-holders) and bobyl‛i (land- less people)). The empirical analysis showed that families of both social categories and all the economic categories tended to have a nuclear structure, except for the serf peas- ants and semi-indentured peasants, among whom there was no single dominant family type. The distinguishing feature of these social categories was determined by having a sufficient amount of land for self-sustenance and the living conditions associated with serfdom
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