Sociological Study of Fertility and Mortality in Ipswich, 1872-1910

The project had five major objectives:<br> 1. To create a detailed sociological and demographic database on individual families for the period 1871-1910 for the town of Ipswich by linking information from marriage, birth and death registers, and the 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses. <br> 2. To clarify the relationship between socio-economic status and fertility and mortality. <br> 3. To illuminate the nature of the long-term transition in fertility and mortality that took place in Ipswich and in England between 1871 and 1910.<br> 4. To analyse the relationship and interaction between fertility and mortality variables and how they changed over time.<br> 5. To clarify the influence of local environment and geography on the structure of mortality, and to study patterns of geographical migration in the period between 1871 and 1910.<br> <br>