AGE OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN CASES ASSISTED.

The table which follows shows for all persons involved in the cases assisted the number and per cent within each specified age group. The groupings used are: Under 16, 16 to 39, 40 to 59, and 60 or over.

TABLE 21.-Number and per cent of persons within each age group, by general nativity and race of head of case.

[This table includes only races represented by 50 or more cases as shown in Table 3. The totals, however, are for all races.]

Practically one-half of the 117,887 persons involved, for whom information relative to age was secured, were under 16 years of age, the percentage being 49.7. Thirty-one per cent were from 16 to 39 years of age; 14.6 per cent 40 to 59; and 4.6 per cent 60 or over. The cases where the head was foreign-born have a larger proportion of persons under 16 and a smaller proportion from 16 to 39 than have the cases where the head was native-born. In the two older age groups there is practically no difference between native and foreign

cases.

5,471

49.7 31.0 14.6

4.6

4, 196 1,654 378
22,531 10,087 3,263
14,064 7,119 2,208 53.0

51.8 32.4 12.8
47.3

2.9

33.1 14.8
28. 2 14.3

4.8

4.4

In the age group "under 16" were 59.6 per cent of the persons in the Bohemian and Moravian foreign-born cases, 59.4 per cent of the persons in the Polish foreign-born cases, and 58.8 per cent of the persons in the Lithuanian foreign-born cases.

The races show wide variations in the proportions of persons 60 years of age or over. The French foreign-born have the largest proportion 60 years of age or over, the percentage being 9.8; the English foreign-born are second in order, with 8.5 per cent, and the Welsh third, with 8.1 per cent.

CONJUGAL CONDITION OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN CASES ASSISTED.

The

The general table relating to conjugal condition groups the persons according to age, but the text table which follows shows the data only for the total number of persons 20 years of age or over. data are presented by sex and by general nativity and race of the individual.

TABLE 22.-Number and per cent of persons 20 years of age or over in each conjugal condition, by sex and general nativity and race of individual.

[This table includes only races with 80 or more persons reporting. The totals, however, are for all races.]

TABLE 22. Number and per cent of persons 20 years of age or over in each conjugal condition, by sex and general nativity and race of individual-Continued.

TABLE 22.-Number and per cent of persons 20 years of age or over in each conjugal condition, by sex and general nativity and race of individual-Continued.

Of the total number of persons 20 years of age or over reporting conjugal condition, 13.4 per cent were single, 65 per cent married, and 21.6 per cent deserted, separated, or widowed.

A considerably smaller proportion of the foreign-born than of the native-born were single; the percentages are 8 and 16.6, respectively. The proportion of those widowed varies only slightly in the general nativity groups, but varies materially among the races.

The following races show more than one-fourth of all persons involved, either deserted, separated, or widowed:

Negro, native-born of native father....

Swedish, foreign-born..

Irish, foreign-born...

Norwegian, foreign-born..

Bohemian and Moravian, foreign-born.

German, foreign-born.....

Per cent.

30.4

28.6

28.1

27.7

26.8

25. 5

A comparison of the sexes as to conjugal condition shows the following:

Of the foreign-born males 13.5 per cent were single, while of the foreign-born females only 3.8 per cent were single. Of the foreign-born males 5 per cent and of the foreign-born females 33.9 per cent were deserted, separated, or divorced.

Of the females, 40 per cent or more in the following races were deserted, separated, or divorced:

The next table shows, by race, the number of cases where the wife was the head, reported widowed, deserted, or separated, and the per cent which each forms of the total.

TABLE 23.-Number and per cent of cases assisted in which wife was head and reported widowed, deserted, or separated, by general nativity and race of head of case.

[This table includes only races represented by 20 or more cases as shown in Table 3. The totals, however, are for all races.