Thomas Jordan - Quality of Life and Early British Migration

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This monograph begins by addressing elements of this one method in the study of quality of life. Chapter more explicitly considers an era before our ownthe seventeenth century, with attention to estimating the quality of life experienced by British immigrants to the North American colonies. The status and quality of life which people crossing the Atlantic Ocean under the legal contract, the indenture , is examined. Their experience travelling to the New World, and their fate there, is appraised stochastically (using the adverb in the etymological sense) drawing on documentary sources.

A second analysis, Chap. , describes and numerically estimates the quality of life among Britons condemned to transportation beyond the seas, to Australia in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Migrants include men, women, and boys, and their profiles of quality of life are grouped by gender and by age.

Both groups of migrants are evaluated using a profile of eighteen items, which are estimated using numerical values from 2, through 0, and the highest estimate is +2, to appraise the quality of life. The processes of emigration are placed in the social-political contexts of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.