SURPLUS OF MALES OF DIFFERENT BIRTHPLACES 73 Table 34 presents a significant summary. The immigrants from the United States, con- sisting mainly of British, French, Scandinavian and Germanic stocks and settling to a great extent in rural areas, show the nearest approximation to equality in the numbers of males and females. The British born, with 14 p.c. surplus males, rank next. While the majority of these locate in urban communities!, on the whole they are permanent settlers intending to make their homes in this country and to assume the responsibilities and duties of citizen- ship. The Germanic and Slavic countries send larger proportions of females than does any other foreign group, the United States excepted. Among the immigrants from these coun- tries there was a surplus of only about 35 p.c. males. ‘Of the Europeans, the immigrants from the Scandinavian and Latin and Greek countries are in a class more or less by themselves, with 75 p.c. to 88 p.c. surplus males among the foreign born in Canada. As has been pointed out already, Asiatic immigration is unique in the overwhelming preponderance of males.2 TABLE 34—SUMMARY TABLE SHOWING PERCENTAGE OF MALES AND FEMALES AND PERCENT- AGE SURPLUS OF MALES FOR IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA, BY SPECIFIED GROUPS OF COUNTRIES OF BIRTH. 1921 Total Immigrants......... wae British born.................. V3 SHERENE SORE Foreign born...............uuu. we we 6 GHD Shen dh Ea DD ost BOS sas an J South, Eastern and Central FUuTOpe. ..u..evrviire: vernirins cites ieiiirnienvanns United States........ooovevi ovvieiiiinnainn eerie SCANAINAVIAN. .. .\ ttt t eit eee e eerie aaa eae aaas GEIINATIC. . vivian einen ee ee eerie, Latin and Greek................. § CEPEEE aw Slavic... . Agia Per cent Males 5.5" 53 2¢ 58-3. 50-02 50-40 RD. EF! 43-6 b7-0* 652° 57-9. 20.0) Per cent Females 44.44 46-78 41-65 39-97 40-60 47-48 36-39 42-98 34-68 42-08 311.08 Percent- age Surplus of Males i . Earlier in this section the statement was made that were the adult population exam- ined separately, the proportions of surplus males would be greater than appear in the data given for the total population of all ages. Such was the expectation because of the ten- dency for the numbers of the sexes to be more or less equal among children. That such is actually the case is shown for the foreign born in Table 35. Column 1 gives the percent- ages of surplus males in the total foreign born population by country of birth and column 2 gives the data for the adult population in each case. Both of the percentages for the Icelanders are exceptional and no explanation is offered, as the numbers of the sexes are so nearly equal among the adults as well as the children, and the differences in the percentages so insignificant that the case would seem to be unimportant. The significant point in the table is that for every other country of birth the surplus of males is greater in the adult population. In some cases it is very much greater. Similarly, when the proportions of surplus males are computed for the adult population of the several origins (Table 36), they are seen to be in excess of the percentages for all ages given in Tables 29, 30 and 81. These two tables show that the significant differences in sex distribution were minimized rather than overstated in the earlier part of this chapter. Further use will be made of the data in the subsequent discussion of intermarriage and fertility. etn. 1 8ee Table 51, p. 105. 2 The above remarks refer to grouns of countries as such; individual exceptions within the groups have heen previously noted.