El desarrollo social y demográfico en localidades de Michoacán entre los siglos XVIII y XIX

From parish records and population data, population growth and crude mortality rates were calculated in Valladolid-Morelia, Pátzcuaro, Uruapan and Zamora, Michoacán; as well as other data: the crude birth rate, the crude marriage rate and the general fertility rate for 1790 in the case of Valladolid and Uruapan. One of the biggest problems in the sources is the underreporting of infant mortality, especially in Valladolid-Morelia and Pátzcuaro. Life expectancy in Pátzcuaro in 1860 was calculated from a census and parish death records. The crude mortality rate was also calculated in some mortality crises to account for the magnitude of the impact of epidemics on societies of the old demographic regime, before the demographic transition.