Americans by Choice

by John Palmer Gavit

(Part One)
Code Number of Court	Total Petit­ioners	Sex			Marital Condition
		Male	Female	No Infor­mation	Married
					Number	Per Cent
Total	26,284	26,117	154	13	18,017	68.5
01	11,058	10,989	69	...	7,191	65.0
02	2,401	2,377	24	...	1,286	53.6
03	1,553	1,542	10	1	1,097	70.6
04	1,355	1,347	8	...	975	72.0
05	598	596	...	2	499	83.5
06	647	642	5	...	488	75.4
07	135	135	...	...	98	72.6
08	742	741	1	...	579	78.0
09	410	406	3	1	297	72.4
10	29	29	...	...	22	75.9
12	13	13	...	...	7	53.1
13	52	52	...	...	41	78.8
14	23	23	...	...	13	56.5
15	389	388	...	1	310	79.7
16	1,175	1,173	2	...	933	79.4
17	1,703	1,701	2	...	1,386	81.4
18	714	710	4	...	496	69.5
19	813	808	4	1	595	73.2
20	703	688	10	5	384	54.6
21	143	138	5	...	96	67.1
22	19	19	...	...	13	68.4
23	19	199	...	...	156	78.4
24	115	115	...	...	99	86.1
25	635	634	1	...	473	74.5
26	74	74	...	...	53	71.6
27	104	101	1	2	68	55.4
28	363	358	5	...	270	74.3
29	119	119	...	...	92	77.3

(Part Two)
Code Number of Court	Marital Condition					Petitioner’s Wife Born in United States
	Single		Widowed		No Inform­ation
	Number	Per Cent	Number	Per Cent		Number	Per Cent
Total	8,084	30.8	164	0.6	19	1,632	9.1
01	3,824	34.6	43	0.4	...	322	4.4
02	1,093	45.5	22	0.9	...	155	12.0
03	441	28.4	12	0.8	3	43	3.9
04	374	27.6	6	0.4	...	94	9.6
05	96	16.1	3	0.5	...	67	13.4
06	158	24.4	1	0.2	...	60	12.3
07	36	26.7	1	0.7	...	9	9.1
08	162	21.8	1	0.1	...	42	7.3
09	108	26.3	2	0.2	3	17	5.7
10	7	24.1	...	...	...	4	18.2
12	6	46.9	...	...	...	1	14.2
13	10	19.2	...	...	1	14	34.1
14	6	26.1	3	13.0	1	5	38.5
15	76	19.5	...	...	3	33	10.6
16	229	19.5	12	1.0	1	86	9.2
17	312	18.3	5	0.4	...	178	12.8
18	204	28.6	14	2.0	...	141	28.4
19	216	26.6	1	0.1	1	88	14.8
20	300	42.7	14	2.0	5	84	21.9
21	38	26.6	9	6.3	...	29	30.2
22	6	31.6	...	...	...	...	...
23	41	20.6	1	0.5	1	16	8.0
24	16	13.9	...	...	...	23	23.2
25	160	25.2	2	0.3	...	53	11.2
26	21	28.4	...	...	...	2	3.8
27	34	32.7	2	1.9	...	8	11.8
28	85	23.4	8	2.2	...	50	18.5
29	27	22.7	...	...	...	8	8.7

TABLE LVII

Number and Nativity of Petitioners’ Children Under Twenty-one Years of Age

Code Number of Court	Married Petitioners									Total Number of Foreign Born Children Under 21
	Total	Having Children		Having Native-born Children Only		Having Foreign-born Children Only		Having Both Native and Foreign-born Children
		Number	Per Cent	Number	Per Cent	Number	Per Cent	Number	Per Cent
Total	18,017	14,371	79.8	10,563	73.5	1,441	10.0	2,367	16.5	4,843
01	7,191	5,760	80.1	3,960	68.8	683	11.8	1,117	19.4	2,380
02	1,286	943	73.3	754	80.0	100	10.6	89	9.4	158
03	1,097	866	78.9	647	74.7	97	11.3	122	14.1	245
04	975	776	79.6	673	86.7	36	4.7	67	8.6	114
05	499	409	82.0	338	82.6	20	4.9	51	12.5	76
06	488	387	79.3	299	77.3	22	5.6	66	17.1	124
07	98	73	74.5	61	83.6	3	4.1	9	12.3	21
08	579	506	87.4	354	70.0	65	12.8	87	17.2	197
09	297	250	84.2	205	82.0	10	4.0	35	14.0	69
10	22	16	72.7	9	56.3	3	18.8	4	25.0	6
12	7	4	57.1	2	50.0	1	25.0	1	25.0	2
13	41	28	68.3	23	82.1	1	3.6	4	14.3	6
14	13	6	46.1	4	66.7	1	16.6	1	16.7	2
15	310	262	84.5	201	76.7	21	8.0	40	15.3	97
16	933	754	80.8	568	75.3	75	10.0	111	14.7	254
17	1,386	1,191	85.9	878	73.7	101	8.5	212	17.8	412
18	496	363	73.2	301	82.9	19	5.2	43	11.8	104
19	595	469	78.8	311	66.3	59	12.6	99	21.1	203
20	384	291	75.8	230	79.0	20	6.9	41	14.1	68
21	96	60	62.5	45	75.0	7	11.7	8	13.3	21
22	13	7	53.8	2	28.6	3	42.9	2	28.6	3
23	156	120	76.9	70	58.3	18	15.0	32	26.7	46
24	99	81	81.8	58	71.6	7	8.6	16	19.8	28
25	473	385	81.4	312	81.0	26	6.8	47	12.2	85
26	53	39	73.6	33	84.6	....	....	6	15.4	10
27	68	47	69.1	35	74.5	5	10.6	7	14.9	12
28	270	212	78.5	143	67.5	29	13.7	40	18.8	79
29	92	66	71.7	47	71.2	9	3.6	10	15.2	21

TABLE LVIII