National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-196168

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Dr. Joseph A. Hill, assistant to the director of the census, Department of Commerce

Collection:: Economics Books

22 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW geographic changes; and, as I add them up roughly, it seems to me to come to more than 43 per cent of the 164,000. Mr. Boggs. I took it directly from the census figures from which the quotas were derived, rather than from the quotas themselves. Senator Reep. The question was as to the quotas. Mr. Boaes. Well, you see the geographic adjustments are made to the statistics relating to the pre-war countries, and those which you are looking at are the quotas relating to the postwar countries. Senator Remp. But the question was directed to the postwar quotas. What proportion of the quotas are affected by those changes in geography? I think you will find it runs about 60 per cent. The question runs that way. Mr. Boges. I presume that is true. The Cmamrman. Doctor Hill, in computing the national origins, did you take into consideration the differential of fecundity ¢ Doctor Hirt. In making that division between the original native stock and the immigrant stock or what I rather prefer to call the “ colonial stock” and “postcolonial stock,” the process which we followed did take care of anv difference that there mav have heen in fecundity. The Cramrmaxn. Will you explain now in some detail what that is and what the differential was? Doctor Hin. We did not determine the differential, but we used figures that disposed of it. The process was such a complicated one, volving the use of age statistics, that I really could not explain it briefly. But it did not involve the question of differential fecundity. We started with the percentage of the population that was born of native parents and the percentage that was born of foreign parents as given by age groups in the censuses in 1890, 1900, 1910, and 1920, and we did not make any assumptions as to birth rates or relative fecundity. We did not have to. The Carman. If you did not determine that, how did vou take it into consideration in reaching your figures? Doctor Hrrr. I might answer that question in this way: Suppose you knew or could ascertain in some way by using census figures and without applying birth rates or death rafes how many descend- ants two or more classes had at the present time, you would not need to work out the difference in fecundity. You could do it if you wanted to as a matter of information. "But if vou were interested only in how many descendants one class had and how many the other class had, and had data which enabled you to determine that without making any assumptions as to birth rates—the question of differential fecunditv would not arise. The Cuammman. That is what I am trying to ascertain—how this data arose and whether it is 2 part of the computations vou ficured in your report of 19287 Doctor Hin. We did not have to consider it. The Caamman. You did not have to consider it? Doctor Hix. No. Senator Rerp. It was automatically taken care of ? Doctor Hiv. It was automatically taken care of; yes. I think it is only fair to add that when it came to determining the different national stocks—the German, Irish, English, and so forth—we did

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