Len Smith

Biographic Data

ID3880129
NAMELen Smith
GIVEN NAMESLen
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH L
AFFILIATIONSAustralian National University
ORCID0000-0002-5477-0874
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS78
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX4

  • Origins of ‘the gap’: Perspectives on the historical demography of aboriginal victorians

    Open AccessJanya Mccalman, Rebecca Kippen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2021References: 7

  • Family and country: Accounting for fractured connections under colonisation in Victoria, Australia

    Open AccessJanya Mccalman, Len SmithARTICLEJournal of Population Research2016Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Infant mortality of Sami and settlers in Northern Sweden: The era of colonization 1750–1900

    Open AccessPeter Sköld, Per Axelsson et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2011

    UNLABELLED: The study deals with infant mortality (IMR) that is one of the most important aspects of indigenous vulnerability. BACKGROUND: The Sami are one of very few indigenous peoples with an experience of a positive mortality transition. OBJECTIVE: Using unique mortality data from the period 1750-1900 Sami and the colonizers in northern Sweden are compared in order to reveal an eventual infant mortality transition. FINDINGS: The results show …

  • Colonial health transitions: Aboriginal and ‘poor white’ infant mortality compared, Victoria 1850–1910

    Janya Mccalman, Ruth Morley et al.ARTICLEThe History of the Family2010Cited by: 2References: 3

    This paper presents results from the first two longitudinal historical cradle-to-grave datasets constructed in Australia: the Aboriginal population of the state of Victoria, reconstituted using genealogical research and vital registrations, 1835-1930; and an impoverished European population sample born at the Melbourne Lying-In Hospital, 1857-1900 and traced until 1985. It investigates the comparative infant mortality between these two severely d…

  • The Limits of ‘Elimination’ in the Politics of Population

    T Rowse, Len SmithARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2010Cited by: 2

    Has Australian colonisation tended to 'eliminate' the Indigenous presence? The Australian government did not enact the logic of eliminationby ceasing to enumerate people as Indigenous Australianswhen the referendum in 1967 showed popular support for the 'inclusion' of 'Aborigines'. No longer distinguishing 'Aborigines' in the results of the census, thus ending the 'Aboriginal population', was a possible road to inclusion, but it was not taken. Ra…

  • Colonialism and the health transition: Aboriginal Australians and poor whites compared, Victoria, 1850–1985

    Janya Mccalman, Len Smith et al.ARTICLEThe History of the Family2009Cited by: 6References: 2

    This paper presents the results of the first two longitudinal historical cradle-to-grave datasets constructed in Australia: the Aboriginal population of the state of Victoria, reconstituted backwards using genealogical research and vital registrations, 1835–1930; and an impoverished European population born at the Melbourne Lying-In Hospital, 1857–1900 and traced until 1985. It investigates the hypothesis that the health transition in indigenous …

  • Fractional Identities: The Political Arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians

    Open AccessLen Smith, Janya Mccalman et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2008Cited by: 4References: 1

    Established as a British Colony in 1835, Victoria was considered the leader in Australian indigenous administration-the first colony to legislate for the "protection" and legal victualing of Aborigines, and the first to collect statistical data on their decline and anticipated disappearance. The official record, however, excludes the data that can explain the Aborigines' stunning recovery. A painstaking investigation combining family histories; V…

  • Spline interpolation for demographic variables: The monotonicity problem

    Open AccessLen Smith, Rob J Hyndman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2004Cited by: 3

  • Applying Lee-Carter under conditions of variable mortality decline

    Heather Booth, JOHN MAINDONALD et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies2002Cited by: 33References: 17

    The Lee-Carter method of mortality forecasting assumes an invariant age component and most applications have adopted a linear time component. The use of the method with Australian data is compromised by significant departures from linearity in the time component and changes over time in the age component. We modify the method to adjust the time component to reproduce the age distribution of deaths, rather than total deaths, and to determine the o…

  • On the measurement of relative and absolute income-related health inequality

    Open AccessPhilip M Clarke, Philip Clarke et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2002Cited by: 13References: 8

  • The Aboriginal Population of Australia

    Open AccessL R Smith, Len SmithARTICLEPopulation1984Cited by: 14