From: Chris Lemens (chrislemens@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed 10 Apr 2002 - 17:22:52 EEST
<delurk>
> From: Michael Schwartz <mschwartz@mindspring.com>
>
> For Swensstead this gives us:
>
> Male Female
> CHILDREN: 40 total
> Newborns: 4 4
> Youngsters: 12 12
> Initiands: 4 4
>
> ADULTS: 40 total
> Young adults: 8 8
> Mature adults: 8 8
> Elders: 4 4
>
> This leaves us with 16 women of child-bearing age
> for 8 newborns.
>
However, it may imply as very high infant & childhood mortality rate. Check my math!
I assumed that the youngsters category applies to something like 12 years of life (say age 1 to 13?). That averages to about one Youngster per year. More or less the same math applies to the initiands category. It looks to me like 2 or 3 years of life, with four kids in it. So about 1 or 2 per year. However, we have 4 kids born this year. So, 2 or 3 of those will die before they turn 14 or so. That would be 50% or 75% of each year's kiddies.
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