Postal savings

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Identifikator:: 869930397

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-49420

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kemmerer, Edwin Walter http://d-nb.info/gnd/101827717

Title:: Postal savings

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Humphrey Milford

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 176 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IV - Depositors and deposits

Collection:: Economics Books

60 POSTAL SAVINGS about 75 per cent of the native whites were 10 years of age or over, and 97 per cent of the foreign born. Multiplying the crude figure 15 given above by 75/97 we arrive at 10.9 as the cor rect figure showing the ratio of the per capita de posit in postal savings banks of the foreign born 10 years of age or over to that of the native bom of the same age group. Viewed by countries the figures show striking differences, the natives of Greece being well in the lead with a per capita deposit of $11.70, or a figure 51 times as large as that for native bom Americans. The natives of Russia and Italy follow closely with per capita deposits of $7.85 and $6.95 respectively, then come those of Hun gary with $5.69 and those of Austria with $4.86. The per capita deposits for the natives of other countries fall far behind these figures, that for the American born, viz., 23 cents, coming up in y the extreme rear. Any satisfactory explanation of this situation would require a thoroughgoing investigation among the depositors themselves in the different communities most affected. With such evidence as is at present available, most of it coming from communications sent by postmasters and others to the Postal Savings Division at Washington, the best one can do is to name a few of the forces

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