TABLE VI
OLD AND NEW IMMIGRATION COMPARED WITH RESPECT TO ABILITY OF THE FOREIGN-BORN TO READ, BY RACE[1] (STUDY OF EMPLOYEES)
| Per cent. | |
| able to | |
| Old Immigration. | read. |
| Canadian, French | 88.1 |
| Canadian, other | 98.9 |
| Dutch | 97.6 |
| English | 98.8 |
| German | 98.0 |
| Irish | 95.8 |
| Scotch | 99.5 |
| Swedish | 99.8 |
| Welsh | 98.1 |
| New Immigration. | |
| Bulgarian | 78.1 |
| Croatian | 70.9 |
| Greek | 80.5 |
| Hebrew, Russian | 93.1 |
| Hebrew, other | 92.5 |
| Italian, North | 83.3 |
| Italian, South | 67.5 |
| Lithuanian | 77.3 |
| Magyar | 91.0 |
| Polish | 79.9 |
| Portuguese | 47.5 |
| Roumanian | 82.6 |
| Russian | 74.5 |
| Ruthenian | 65.8 |
| Servian | 71.3 |
| Slovak | 84.4 |
| Slovenian | 87.5 |
| Spanish | 98.1 |
| Syrian | 63.6 |