proportions of individuals who have been in the United States from three to four years; and the Herzegovinians have by far the largest and the French, Irish, Swedes, and Welsh have the smallest proportions of individuals who have been here from four to five years. The next table and its accompanying chart show the per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States each specified number of years, by race, beginning with those here under five years: TABLE 18.-Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States each specified number of years, by race. (STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.) [By years in the United States is meant years since first arrival in the United States. No deduction is made for time spent abroad. This table includes only races with 40 or more males reporting. The total, however, is for all foreign-born.] Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States each specified number of years, by race. [This chart shows only races with 300 or more employees reporting. The total, however, is for all foreign-born.] = UNDER 5 YEARS 15 TO 19 YEARS = 20 YEARS OR OVER From the data presented in the foregoing table it appears that of the foreign-born male employees for whom information was secured 41.1 per cent have been in the United States under five years, 25.3 per cent from five to nine years, 8.2 per cent from ten to fourteen years, 8.1 per cent from fifteen to nineteen years, and 17.4 per cent twenty years or over. The proportion of employees who have been in the United States under five years is largest for the Macedonians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, and Greeks, in the order mentioned, and smallest for the Welsh, Irish, Canadians other than French, French, English, Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Scotch; and the proportion of employees who have been here from five to nine years is largest for the Finns, Bohemians and Moravians, North Italians, and Hebrews other than Russian, in the order mentioned, and smallest for the Macedonians, Bulgarians, Welsh, English, Greeks, and Irish. None of the Armenians or Herzegovinians, only a fraction of 1 per cent of the Roumanians, Servians, and Macedonians, and a larger proportion of the Irish, English, Scotch, Canadians other than French, and Germans than of the individuals of any other race have been in the United States twenty years or over. The table next presented shows the percentage of foreign-born persons in the households studied who had been in the United States each specified number of years. The exhibit is by race of individual. TABLE 19.-Per cent of foreign-born persons in the United States each specified number of years, by race of individual. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [By years in the United States is meant years since first arrival in the United States. No deduction is made for time spent abroad. This table includes only races with 20 or more persons reporting. The total, however, is for all foreign-born.] Of 7,247 persons reporting, 59.4 per cent have been in the United States under five years, 81.8 per cent under ten years, and 93.1 per cent under twenty years. The table shows Greeks, Macedonians, and Bulgarians to be very recent immigrants, over 99 per cent of the Greeks and more than 95 per cent of the other two races having been in the United States under five years. A large proportion of Roumanians have also been in this country a comparatively short time. Servians, Magyars, Ruthenians, South Italians, Croatians, and Germans, in the order mentioned, show between 50 per cent and slightly over 75 per cent who have been in the United States under five years. North Italians, Poles, French, Hebrews, Slovaks, and Slovenians report between 25 and 50 per cent who have a residence in this country of less than five years. Of the Scotch 24.6 per cent have been in the United States under five years, while the English, Bohemians and Moravians, and Irish have less than 11 per cent of this residence period. No Welsh have a residence of less than five years. Greeks, Macedonians, and Roumanians exhibit 100 per cent, and Bulgarians and Servians between 99 and 100 per cent who have been in the United States under ten years. Magyars, Croatians, Ruthenians, South Italians, Poles, North Italians, Hebrews, Germans, Slovaks, French, and Slovenians, in the order named, have between 63 and 91 per cent, with a residence period of less than ten years. The Scotch have only 38.6 per cent and the Bohemians and Moravians 26.5 per cent, while the Irish show slightly under 20 per cent, and Welsh only 6.9 per cent who have been less than ten years in this country. All of the Bulgarians, Greeks, Macedonians, Roumanians, and Servians have been in this country under twenty years, and the Croatians, Magyars, Ruthenians, Hebrews, South Italians, Poles, North Italians, and Slovaks, in the order mentioned, show between 90 and 100 per cent of the same period of residence. The Slovenians, French, and Germans have between 80 and 90 per cent, and the Bohemians and Moravians and Scotch between 50 and 60 per cent, and the Irish, Welsh, and English considerably less than one-half of their numbers who have been in the United States less than twenty years. The table next presented shows, by locality and by race, the percentage of foreign-born male employees in the United States each specified number of years: TABLE 20.-Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States each specified number of years, by locality and by race. (STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.) [By years in the United States is meant years since first arrival in the United States. No deduction is made for time spent abroad. This table includes only races with 40 or more males reporting in each of two or more localities. The total, however, is for all foreign-born.] |