Epidemics, mortality and longevity in Tasmania, 1838-1930

这个项目将调查只有使用历史人口数据才能探索的当代重要领域。国家利益包括：(1)更好地了解流行病如何在家庭和社区中传播，以及可能的死亡率和病死率，以协助为未来的流行病做准备；(2)提高预测澳大利亚和其他国家的老年死亡率和人口老龄化的准确性；(3)更准确地估计妇女自然受孕和怀孕的能力，并根据其年龄、配偶的年龄和她以前出生的人数等特征进行分娩。该项目还将扩大一个独特的公开可用的数据集。

This project will investigate areas of contemporary importance that can only be explored using historic-demographic data. National benefits include (1) gaining a better understanding of how epidemics spread through families and communities, and possible mortality and case-fatality rates, to assist in preparation for future epidemics; (2) improved accuracy in projecting older-age mortality and population ageing in Australia and other countries; and (3) more precise estimates of women's capacity to naturally conceive and carry to term by characteristics such as her age, her partner's age, and her number of previous births. The project will also result in augmentation of a unique publicly available dataset.