Employment psychology

Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

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Identifikator:: 1028407564

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-47263

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Link, Henry Charles; Thorndike, Edward L. http://d-nb.info/gnd/118802127

Title:: Employment psychology

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: MacMillan

Year of publication:: 1924

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 440 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. Trade tests and other applications of employment psychology

Collection:: Economics Books

76 SEX, CONJUGAL CONDITION, AGE COMPOSITION OF VARIOUS STOCKS ~lose correspondence between the percentages of single Canadian and British born males in each age group. The second significant fact is that between 25 and 70 years of age the foreign born males show a larger percentage who have never married than either the British ar Canadian born. That the foreign born males tend to marry younger than the Canadian horn and British born, is made clear on examination of the percentages for the lower age groups. In spite of the large shortage of women the foreign born males actually showed a smaller proportion single between the ages of 15 and 25 years than either of the other groups. In the figures for the females greater differences appear. The British born females show a smaller percentage single at all ages above 20 than do the Canadian born, and the foreign born females show much smaller percentages single at all ages than the British born. Thus a larger proportion of the foreign born women not only have married younger han the Canadian born, but the foreign born females have married to a far greater extent ‘han the Canadian born women at all ages. The foreign born women (in proportion to their numbers) are therefore contributing to future population far more than the British born or Canadian born. This fact is extremely significant from the standpoint of the population structure of the country, and its importance is increased when one notes that the greatest differences between the proportions married are at the earlier ages of the child- bearing period. In the absence of separate figures for the different stocks and groups of foreign born, 1 detailed analysis of the various origins in respect of conjugal condition is impossible, aut the section on age distribution, when read in connection with Chapter VI on inter- marriage, will provide the reader with material for making definite deductions as to the behaviour of the several stocks in the matter of marriage and as to the effect of their differing behaviour on the population structure of the Dominion. TABLE 38—PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND OVER SINGLE, BY QUINQUENNIAL AGE GROUPS AND SEX, CLASSIFIED AS CANADIAN, BRITISH OR FOREIGN BORN, FOR CANADA, 1921. Age Group 30... eee 2 Ee LR .e A PE rramerae rrr saad EERE. -F - sae me au Ea «oo. - a nse 100 and over....... FN Males Per cent single Canadian Born | Females Per cent single 99-44 31-83 17-50 7-5: ry Rs 93-04 61-39 23-94 11; 1-96 Jd British Born Males ' Females Per cent , Percent single single i046 Teg =7 - CTLRe 6% ro 50-1 22-20 12-17 £30 Lege 2 + % Foreign Born Males | Females Per cent | Per cent single single 99-" £5 43-0 29-7: 21-6¢ 17-7 ‘4-86 2-79 ~-81 5" &r -47 86-35 36-93 11-80 6:09 4.2L 18 6-5: 9:02 7-32 ER THE AGE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FOREIGN BORN Just as an individual at one age is radically different in disposition, capacity and outlook from what he was at an earlier or will be at a later age, so a population differs materially with the changing age distribution of the people who compose it. A people with unduly large numbers in the prime of life has characteristics which are much less pronounced in a population with large numbers of small children or with a considerable proportion of men and women above middle age. In making comparisons, then, between different population groups in respect to social or anti-social behaviour, the age distribution is an important factor which must be reckoned with before valid conelusions can be reached.

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