RACE AND RELATIVE AGE AT ARRIVAL

The racial distribution of these petitioners, with reference to age at arrival, is interesting and to some extent significant. [Table XXVI], including only those races represented by at least 50 petitions, is arranged in the order of percentages of those arriving after attaining the age of 21 years. It throws sidelights upon the variations of the age at which the individuals of various races came to this country:

TABLE XXVI

Racial Distribution of Petitioners, Showing Percentages for the Age Periods “Over Twenty-one,” “Fifteen to Twenty,” and “One to Fourteen,” in the Order of the First-mentioned Age Group



		Number and Percentage of Those Arriving at Ages
Country of Birth	Whole Number of Petitioners	21 and Over		15 to 20		1 to 14
Country of Birth	Whole Number of Petitioners	Number	Per Cent	Number	Per Cent	Number	Per Cent

Scotland	288	218	75.7	57	19.8	13	4.5
Switzerland	197	140	71.7	50	25.4	7	3.5
France	86	57	66.3	10	11.6	19	22.1
England	831	538	64.7	216	26.0	77	9.3
Holland	139	90	64.7	32	23.0	17	12.2
Germany	2,305	1,425	61.8	600	26.0	280	12.1
Ireland	1,773	1,087	61.3	609	34.3	77	4.3
Denmark	200	122	61.0	65	32.5	13	6.5
Norway	389	228	58.6	148	38.0	13	3.3
Finland	144	84	58.3	54	37.5	6	4.1
Hungary	2,443	1,291	52.8	960	39.3	192	7.9
Canada	385	198	51.4	99	25.7	88	22.9
Sweden	616	316	51.3	269	43.7	31	5.0
Russia	7,864	3,936	50.1	3,055	38.8	873	11.1
Rumania	569	278	48.9	202	35.5	89	15.6
Italy	3,591	1,742	48.5	1,198	33.4	651	18.1
Austria	3,875	1,828	47.2	1,658	42.8	389	10.0
Turkey in Europe	92	42	45.7	42	45.7	8	8.7
Turkey in Asia	142	63	44.4	69	48.6	10	7.0
Greece	90	31	34.4	47	52.2	12	13.3

Inferences or generalizations from this table in connection with the age statistics given heretofore would be perilous, since we have not tabulated the data which would show, with regard to any particular racial group, how many of those between 15 and 20 years of age came at 18 or 19; or how many of those over 21 came after they were 25 or before they were 30. So far as it goes, however, it would appear to indicate that those of the so-called “older” immigration left their homelands at a later age, while a larger proportion of those of the “newer” came in younger manhood. The larger percentages in the column “over 21” are credited to the “older”; the larger in the second column, “15 to 20,” to the “newer.”