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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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28 SUMMARY ON ORIGIN AND BIRTHPLACE Ukrainian immigrants are the worst with a proportion of 39-46 p.c. illiterate, and the Aus- trians are not much better—35-08 p.c. of them are illiterate. The Czechs are different from the other Slavs in respect to literacy, as in many other particulars; their illiterates represent only 11-94 p.c. Of the foreign born from Latin and Greek countries, the Roumanians with 27:03 p.c. unable to read or write any language, are the most illiterate; the Italians rank second with 23:68 p.c. The Greeks are much better, showing only 11-59 p.c. illiterate. All those percentages, however, are quite high when compared with 3-08 pc. for the immigrants of Germanic origin, and 1-81 p.c. for the Scandinavians. These dats are presented in sum- mary form in Chart 11. (2) Birthplace is a factor in illiteracy. The native born show considerably smaller pro- portions illiterate than the foreign born, which is an evidence of the effectiveness of Cana- dian schools and other institutions. However, strong ancestral tendencies appear over and above the influence of nativity, making it very clear that illiteracy is in no small measure a matter of group heredity. (3) A comparison of the above data on illiteracy with the distribution of the various origins by provinces and the proportions naturalized, is rather significant. Cuaart XI PROPORTIONS ILL! TERATE AMONG FOREIGN BORN, 10 YRS ap OVER, ror SPECIFIED GROUPS or COUNTRIES of BIRTH. 1921. %0 10 -€ N.Westean Eunoee S, Eastern ano Cent. Europe Scanonavian Countries Germanic Countries Latin anp Greer Countries Sravic Countries CRIME The relation of criminality to extraction and birthplace is shown by an examination of data for reformatory and penitentiary population and of the statistics of convictions for indictable offences. (1) Data on Convictions for Indictable Offences—An analysis of the data covering all convictions for indictable offences showed that, taking the age and sex distribution as they actually existed in 1921, the problem of law enforcement was 50 p.c. greater among the British born and between three and four times more difficult among the foreien born than

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