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

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>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><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The project transcribed a total of 85,611 births and 53,748 deaths registered for the period 1871-1910. Additionally, census entries were transcribed for 166,323 individuals enumerated in the 1871, 1891 and 1901 censuses, along with 1,707 Anglican marriages for 1871-1881.<br>
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Of the 51,677 individuals recorded in the censuses between 1871-1901, 76.4 per cent were linked to either a death record before the next census or to subsequent census. Of the 32,101 deaths that took place between 1871-1901, 74.0 per cent were accounted for either by a link to births or to the previous census, and it was possible to link 90.9 per cent of deaths under the age of one to a previous birth record. Of the 150,026 entries for individuals enumerated in the 1871, 1881 and 1891 censuses, 83,934 &#8722; 55.9 percent &#8722; were accounted for either through linkage to the next census or to a death record before that census. <br>
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