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The seasonality of social phenomena in Estonia: the location of the population, alcohol consumption and births
(2009-11-23T08:52:32Z) Silm, Siiri
This thesis examines seasonality in Estonian society, with the aim of learning about patterns of seasonal behaviour. There are examined just a few phenomena: the location of the population, alcohol consumption and births. The author argues that seasonality in Estonian society can be observed through many phenomena, and that the patterns of seasonal behaviour are directly or indirectly caused by natural seasonality. Due to its position at temperate latitude, Estonia is a very good example of a country where people and society as a whole are influenced by the changing of the seasons. Due to natural conditions, we can distinguish two main seasons (summer and winter), and two intermediate seasons (spring and autumn). On the basis of the social phenomena we have investigated, we can also observe similar opposite dynamics between summer and winter in social phenomena. The number of residents increases in the summer months (June-August) in rural municipalities, especially on the coast and islands, and decreases in urban municipalities. In synchrony with the rise and fall in air temperatures, the high season of beer consumption is in summer (June-August), and the low season is in winter (January-February); the relative importance of which is 5.4 percentage points lower than in the summer months. The higher consumption of alcohol is also reflected in statistics of traffic accidents involving drunken drivers. As regards births, the opposing seasons are not summer and winter, but spring and autumn. There are fewer births in October, and more in March; the difference can be up to 15%. In the seasonality of births we can see a changing rhythm of seasonality in the middle of the 20th century, as at the beginning of the century the peak in births was in autumn and the trough was in spring-summer, whereas in the second half of the century the situation was reversed, with the peak in spring and the trough at the end of year. This change probably matches the shift from an agrarian society to an industrial society and an urban lifestyle in Estonia.