Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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Identifikator:: 1831009897

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222160

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Statistical manual

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: New York Real Estate Securities Exchange

Year of publication:: [1930]

Scope:: 123 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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58 POSTAL SAVINGS number of depositors, were born outside of the United States, and that this 60 per cent owned three quarters of all the deposits. 2 Moreover, the proportion of foreign born among the depositors is increasing. About three years before, only 36 per cent of the depositors were foreign born and this 36 per cent owned 51 per cent of the amount on deposit. 3 Analyzing the situation portrayed by these summary figures, one notices that some nationali ties patronize the postal savings system much more extensively than others. The figures for the close of the fiscal year 1915 concerning the nativity of postal savings depositors 4 are shown in column 1 of the following table, of which columns 2 and 3 based upon the census figures for 1910—the latest available—have been added by the writer. The last two per capita figures in column 3 show that in proportion to population the de posits of the foreign born are about 15 times as large as those of the native born. This compari son, however, involves the fallacy of an "age se- 2 Com. & Fin. Chron., Am. Bankers Assoc. Conv. Suppl., Oct. 14, 1916, p. 192. 3 Ibid., 1913, p. 195. 4 The figures are given, along with a large amount of other postal savings information, in a pamphlet issued by the Post Office Department in 1916, entitled The United States Postal Savings System, p. 6.

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