Population problems / by Edward Byron Reuter.

  • Edward Byron Reuter
Date:
1923
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Credit: Population problems / by Edward Byron Reuter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the states of Connecticut, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, and in the District of Columbia. The other states have an excess of males in the population. In some cases this is very pronounced. In Nevada there are 148.4 males to each 100 females; in Wyoming the ratio is as 131.3 to 100; in Idaho it is as 117.1 to 100; and in South Dakota it is as 137.2 to 100. In the Alaska white population there are 282.1 men to each 100 women. In accordance with the principle stated above, the sex composition of the immigrant groups shows a high degree of masculinity. Of those admitted in 1920, the ratio of males to females was as 126.3 too.4 The excess of men was very great among the Chinese, Italians, Portu¬ guese, Rumanians, Scandinavians, Spanish, and the Dutch and Flemish. In some groups there was an excess of females. This was notably the case for the Croatian and Slovenian, Finnish, Hebrew, Irish, Japanese, Magyar, Polish, and Slovak. The number of females in the incoming immigrant groups has, however, been unusually large in the period since the war. In the whole foreign-born population the degree of masculinity is therefore much higher than is indicated by the figures just given for recent immigration. The ratio of males to females in the foreign-born white population was, in 1900, 143.1 to 100; in 1910, it was 159.7 to 100; and in 1920, it was 141.8 to 100. The amount of masculinity is greater in the rural than in the urban populations. This is explained by the fact that the opportunities for employment are less for women than for men in the rural districts. The sex distri¬ bution in the urban and the rural districts of the United States in 1920 is shown, for certain classes of the popu¬ lation, in the accompanying table. 4 Annual Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration, 1921, p. 34.
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