Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

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Identifikator:: 1794974814

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-182133

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Acland

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 224 S.; Diagramme

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IX. Illiteracy and school attendance as affected by the origins of the population

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ILLITERATE IMMIGRANTS OTHER THAN BRITISH AND FRENCH 171 Table 106 distributes the Europeans according to geographical and linguistic groups and presents these differences even more clearly. The percentage illiterate for the most illiterate stock from North Western Europe is approximately half the size of the percentage for the least illiterate from South, Fastern and Central Europe. The percentage for the North Western European group is 2:66 p.c., while that for the South, Eastern and Central group is 22:31 p.c. Such a marked difference is obviously not a matter of chance. That illiteracy is to a considerable extent a matter of stocks or origins, is further established when an examination is made of the percentages for the linguistic groups. The percentage illiterate for the Scandinavian group is the lowest and, with the exception of the Swiss and the Dutch, the proportion unable to read and write for each of the Scandinavian peoples is lower than that for any other European stock. As a group the Latins and Greeks are much more illiterate than either the Scandinavian or Germanic peoples. The percentage for the Greeks, the lowest in that group, is approximately twice, and the percentages for the Italians and Roumanians about four times greater than that for the Belgians, the highest among the Northern Europeans. While there is considerable overlapping of percentages between those of Latin and Greek and Slavie origin, the percentage illiterate for the Slavs as a group is even higher than that for the Latin and Greek group. The figure for the Slavs is increased by the extremely large percentage illiterate among the Austrians and Ukrainians, who form a very large proportion of the Slavic immigrants to Canada. The percentage for the Czechs is about as low as that for the Greeks, while the proportions illiterate among the other Slavic peoples approximate the percentages illiterate for the other two Latin and Greek peoples, namely, the Italians and Roumanians. The data in Table 105 are presented graphically in Chart 31. TABLE 106 —PERCENTAGES ILLITERATE AMANT THF FOREIGN BORN OF THE PRINCIPAL SONIA AND NON-FRENCH ORIGINt ’ ‘A. BY GEOGRAPHICAL AND LINGUISTIC Origin North Western Europe— Belgian........... I Danish. ..cvoivienieer aevrioniarnaenies Geran. «iv viiierivrinerriraneanesranrnan TEolandle.. ccvemen on anvmnes wnwvnninvnin vrmeres Norwegian. .vouivieiiirieeiirneeiinaninns Lo —— Swodish..oovcecnee coors. Total..... South, Eastern and Central Europe— Austrian...... ..iceaeeen- Bulgarian... e C2eChuiiiiien aes aera ‘innigh....... ceeneee reek. ........ SO ——— {ungarian..... CUR EER We RR Ap Serbo-Croatian. .....ooeeriineiianr our POUL see vrrnn enn nes naa ER loumanian........c..ee.ns Russian......... . ..... Ukrainian. ..coovees int cvienneans Total. . Jercentage illiterate 10 years of age and over 4-59 1-74 -80 "8 16 ) 1-52 /7 9.66 35-08 23.56 11-94 2-59 1-59 5.73 3-68 2.79 4.46 7-0 "92 0 9: a1 Origin Scandinavian— Danish:........ Icelandie......- Nongeyia. ry Swedish....... Total... Germanic— Belgian......... German..... Dutch... Total..... Latin and Greek— Greek....ooviunes- Ttalian...covvivusnoenraner ROUMANIAIL. co over cosoeanse Total..... Slavie— Austrian........ Bulgarian........ Czech. ..coovvnnnr Serbo-Croatian.. ...cvear-v —oennns 2olish...c..v.th 46 ik 0h RUSSIAN. ccovnensaersr -ccrsserasanns OJKIAINIAN see enerie rrvevcrsonans: Total..... Percentage illiterate 10 years of age and over 1-74 3-16 1-40 2.47 1-81 6-59 4-90 1-68 3.03 11-50 23-68 27-03 19.4% 35-08 23-56 11-94 22-72 24-46 23-92 39-46 24.4F

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