Geographical Text Analysis: A new approach to understanding nineteenth-century mortality



Porter, Catherine ORCID: 0000-0002-4541-064X, Atkinson, Paul ORCID: 0000-0001-8740-6561 and Gregory, Ian
(2015) Geographical Text Analysis: A new approach to understanding nineteenth-century mortality. Health & Place, 36. pp. 25-34.

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Abstract

This paper uses a combination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and corpus linguistic analysis to extract and analyse disease related keywords from the Registrar-General's Decennial Supplements. Combined with known mortality figures, this provides, for the first time, a spatial picture of the relationship between the Registrar-General's discussion of disease and deaths in England and Wales in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Techniques such as collocation, density analysis, the Hierarchical Regional Settlement matrix and regression analysis are employed to extract and analyse the data resulting in new insight into the relationship between the Registrar-General's published texts and the changing mortality patterns during this time.

Item Type: Article
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 08 Jan 2018 07:50
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 06:46
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.08.010
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3015447