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This paper introduces the concept of the ‘age-profile’, which represents the proportions of cohort populations surviving from birth to a given year. Life tables for Australia and three-dimensional diagrams based on these data are used to illustrate the difference between the ‘age-profile’ values for a given year and the transverse survival values for the same year. The last part of the paper describes areas in which the ‘age-profile’ might be used with reference to its value in representing the experience of cohorts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Examines the nature of migration into Australia during the period of 1865-1935. Theory of migration during the period; Analysis of Australia's demography; Origin of Australian immigrants.

This study presents the results of an analysis of registration records relating to a small isolated population group of high fertility. The Malay population of the Cocos Islands, numbering nearly 1,800 at the 1947 Census of Malay, live in a single village on one of the smaller islands of the atoll, and for a period of about sixty years ending in 1947 were hardly affected at all by immigration and little affected by emigration. In this study, historical and social background is first outlined. The correctness and completeness of registration records relating to births, deaths, and marriages are then discussed.