scholarly journals Derision and Demography: New South Wales and the Irish Orphan Girls of the Earl Grey Immigration Scheme, 1848 to 1850

1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin McHutchion
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Census Data ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Gender Imbalance ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
Irish Famine ◽  
South Wales

From 1848 to 1850, 4175 female orphans from Irish workhouses were sent to the Australian colonies to escape from the Irish famine and to address the gender imbalance in the colonies.  Anglo-centric colonial newspapers condemned the girls for their supposedly inferior demographics – Catholic, illiterate, Irish and female – and raised the spectre of Catholic predominance, leading to the cancellation of the immigration scheme at a time of great humanitarian need.  Using the original shipping lists of the girls who landed in New South Wales and the colony’s census data, this paper uses a quantitative analysis to argue that while newspapers were relatively correct in characterizing the girls’ demographics, they were incorrect in their claims about how the girls’ arrival would influence the colony’s demographic development.

A Quantitative Analysis of Changes in the New South Wales Education System 1950–1975

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah A. O'Mara ◽  
James N. Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Education System ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The Political ◽  
South Wales

The identification and discussion of general trends in an education system is difficult if only single variables are considered. A synthesis of the comments made by a diversity of variables provides a more reliable and valid basis. The paper demonstrates a methodology through which significant and meaningful patterns of change can be identified. These patterns can then be interpreted in terms of the political, social and economic contexts of the years to which they pertain. Data for the NSW education system have been used for the longitudinal analysis and they cover the period 1950 to 1975. Patterns in system inputs are identified and discussed separately from patterns in system processes.

scholarly journals Foster carers in New South Wales: Profile and projections based on ABS Census data

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Siminski ◽  
Jenny Chalmers ◽  
Marilyn McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Census Data ◽  
New South ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Relative Magnitude ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics

Administrative data on foster carers in New South Wales (NSW) are sadly lacking. Based on research commissioned by the NSW Department of Community Services, this paper uses the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census of Population and Housing and other data to provide up-to-date information on the characteristics of foster carers and the demographic trends that are influencing their numbers. Census data indicate that foster carer families are most likely to contain women aged 35–54 years, not in the labour force. Couples account for two-thirds of all foster carers, with the majority of those couples also caring for birth children. While single parents account for less than one-fifth of all foster carers, they are more likely to foster than couples, either with or without birth children. Higher rates of fostering were found in relatively disadvantaged areas. Projected increases in female labour force participation are expected to contribute to a decline (or to slower growth) in the number of foster carers over the next decade. However, projected increases in sole parent families and couples without children are expected to have the opposite effect. The relative magnitude of these effects was not ascertained.

Effect of a new service on women’s abortion experience

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Treloar ◽  
Emmi Snyder ◽  
Charles Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Census Data ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Judicial Interpretation ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Never Married ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Child Bearing

SummaryNew South Wales law on abortion was liberalized by judicial interpretation in 1971. This paper describes the characteristics of the first 1007 women attending a free-standing clinic for induced abortion after it opened in 1974. Compared with Census data for New South Wales females of child-bearing age, the sample contained an over-representation of women who were relatively younger at conception, never married, divorced or separated, born outside Australia, of Catholic religious background, and worked as nurses or in factories. In comparison with background information about abortion experience before 1971, the clinic sample appeared to feel less anxiety and distress during the abortion sequence.

A quantitative analysis of MDMA seized at New South Wales music festivals over the 2019/2020 season: Form, purity, dose and adulterants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. A. O'Reilly ◽  
Christine A. Harvey ◽  
Robin Auld ◽  
Michelle Cretikos ◽  
Catherine Francis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
South Wales
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