| AVERAGE FOR ALL | 10.6 |
| TURKEY IN EUROPE | 8.1 |
| TURKEY IN ASIA | 8.5 |
| GREECE | 8.6 |
| IRELAND | 9.6 |
| RUSSIA | 9.6 |
| ROUMANIA | 9.8 |
| HUNGARY | 9.9 |
| HOLLAND | 10.1 |
| DENMARK | 10.2 |
| AUSTRIA | 10.5 |
| FINLAND | 10.5 |
| SCOTLAND | 10.6 |
| NORWAY | 10.8 |
| ITALY | 11.4 |
| ENGLAND | 11.7 |
| GERMANY | 11.9 |
| FRANCE | 11.9 |
| SWITZERLAND | 12.2 |
| SWEDEN | 13.1 |
| CANADA | 16.4 |
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 | |||
| 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.”
AT THE BEGINNING OF MARRIED LIFE
More than two-thirds (68.5 per cent) of the petitioners were married at the time of their petition for naturalization. One may hazard the guess that the majority were either unmarried or newly married when they came to this country, because, while 89.9 per cent of the 18,017 married petitioners reported wives of foreign birth, 10,563 (73.5 per cent) of them had children exclusively native-born. Only one in ten had foreign-born children only, and only 16.5 per cent had both native and foreign-born children. And 14,371 (79.8 per cent) of the married petitioners had one or more children under 21 years of age.[118]