The Tatar family of the Saratov governorate in the second half of the 19th century: Historical and demographic description

P.Yu. Melnikov

Saratov State Law Academy, Saratov, 410056 Russia

E-mail: p_melnikov@list.ru

Received November 14, 2020

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DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.3.199-212

For citation: Melnikov P.Yu. The Tatar family of the Saratov governorate in the second half of the 19th century: Historical and demographic description. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2021, vol. 163, no. 3, pp. 199–212. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.3.199-212. (In Russian)

Abstract

Family evolution is an important research issue of historical and demographic science and becomes especially interesting in moments of intense socio-economic transformation. In this paper, the households of the Tatars, who lived in the Saratov governorate during the late 19th century, are described. For this purpose, the primary materials of the Zemstvo agricultural censuses carried out in the 1880s–1890s were studied. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Tatars’ households was performed to identify the relationship between the household dwellers and structure. It was revealed that the Tatar households were not very large (about 5.8 persons per household, from 4 to 7 persons according to half of the observations). The structure of the households was analyzed based on P. Laslett’s classification: the results of the analysis demonstrate that most Tatar families were small, both in the number of households (58%) and in the number of persons living in them (50%); complex and extended families were the second and third common structural types, respectively. The hypothesis about increasing complexity of the family structure (from small to extended and complex) with the growth of the number of households was verified. According to the statistical data, the extended families did not prevail in any of the quantitative groups of households and occupied an intermediate position between the small and complex families.

Keywords: family, household, family structure, statistical analysis, demography, peasantry, 19th century, Saratov governorate

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Fig. 1. Distribution of households based on their size.

Fig. 2. Box plot of household sizes depending on structural types.

Fig. 3. Ratio between household type and size.

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