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[fre] Résumé La notion d'indigence, fréquemment employée au XIXe siècle, qui se caractérise par un état de pauvreté nécessitant une assistance quelconque, se prête assez bien à une analyse quantitative. Les données fragmentaires recueillies à l'échelle d'une région ou d'une ville, tout en sous-estimant le phénomène, montrent une indigence élevée dans les villes industrielles. Les enquêtes nationales de 1790-1791 et de 1829-1831 rendent compte d'une France de l'ouest et du nord sévèrement touchées par l'indigence. Le calcul statistique de la régression linéaire par traitement informatique permet d'établir une relation étroite et proportionnelle entre indigence et densités d'une part, entre indigence et présence de journaliers agricoles d'autre part. [eng] Abstract The concept of destitution, frequently used in the nineteenth century, which is characterised by a state of poverty requiring some kind of assistance, can quite easily be studied in terms of quantitative analysis. Although they under-estimate the phenomenon, the fragmentary data collected in a geographical region or a city show a higher rate of poverty in the industrial cities. The 1790-1791 and the 1829-1831 national studies indicate that in western and northern France poverty is very severe. Through the statistical calculation of the linear regression treated by computer, one can establish a narrow proportional relation between destitution and densities on the one hand and between destitution and the presence of agricultural day-labourer on the other hand.
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Stéphane Muckensturm, 2000.
"La quantification d'un phénomène social : l'indigence en France dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle (1790-1850),"
Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 19(3), pages 345-360.
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RePEc:prs:hiseco:hes_0752-5702_2000_num_19_3_2123
DOI: 10.3406/hes.2000.2123
Note: DOI:10.3406/hes.2000.2123
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