The historical population of the Krummhörn region [1720-1850] in the northwest of Germany can be characterized as a non-industrialized, pre-capitalist agricultural society. Around 70 percent of the families had either no land or owned farms too small to ensure subsistence, and therefore worked...

Intensive ageing of population as well as its overall wrong educational orientation send a strong message that economic regression indicates that population and economy are caught in a vicious circle of a crisis, since under such circumstances people aged between 20 and 35 are leaving this...

Over the past few decades correspondence analysis has gained an international reputation as a powerful statistical tool for the graphical analysis of contingency tables. This popularity stems from its development and application in many European countries, especially France, and its use has...