Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Gaertner

Year of publication:: 1891-

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Neueste Zeit

Volume count:: Abt. 3

Place of publication:: Freiburg im Breisgau

Publisher:: Heyfelder

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: IX S., S. [303] - 729

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212 RELATION OF ORIGIN TO FERTILITY AND INFANT MORTALITY proportions in the earlier years and then ceases for a period, the young adults marry and the number of children increases very rapidly. Again, inequality of sex distribution tends to lower the percentage under 10 years of age. In a population where large numbers of men in a given stock are unmarried, the number of births would normally constitute a smaller proportion of the total population. And finally, emigration would affect the proportions. Unattached adults emigrate more readily than those with families. With thesz points in mind, let us refer back to the two origin groups—the one group with the seven highest percentages and the other with the seven lowest. As to date of immigration, in no case has the proportion of an immigrant stock arriving during the last seven years of the decade been significant. So, in all cases, the bulk of the children under 10 years of age must be Canadian born. As to emigration, in all probability the British stocks in Canada were affected by that to at least as great an extent as were non-British and non-French stocks during the years prior to 1921. Such factors, then, were aot of major importance in oecasioning the wide range of percentages under 10 years of age In the various stocks in Canada in 1921. The relation between the volume of immigrants prior to the war and the numbers of a given stock resident in Canada is of greater significance. With the foreign stocks, the inflowing stream of immigration constituted a much greater proportion of the total origin group in Canada than with the British and French stocks. The effect of this difference was ‘0 produce an age distribution abnormally favourable to high fertility. With larger propor- sions in’ the early adult and middle years of life in 1914, it is natural to expect larger aumbers of children born during the subsequent years of the decade to the foreign born parents of other than British and French stocks. How far tis influence explains the high percentage under 10 years cannot be measured with the available data for 1921. As against the favourable age distribution of the foreign stocks there are several important influences especially unfavourable to natural increase. First, all the Eastern and Central European stocks mentioned above show" much larger percentages of surplus males chan the British stocks. Second, their infant mortality rates are much higher. Both ‘hese factors make for low percentages under 10 years of age. We have, therefore, unfavourable sex distribution and high infant mortality rates tending to neutralize favourable age distribution. In view of this compensating action, it would appear that the high percentages under 10 years of age in the several stocks in the first group are largely caused by abnormally high birth rates. In any cage, it is significant that the combined effect of high birth rates and favourable age distribution has been so great that, in spite of high infant mortality and unfavourable sex distribution, these stocks show proportions under 10 years of age two-thirds larger than the British stocks. The relative importance of fertility and age distribution of women between 15 and 49 years will be discussed below in reviewing the 1926 figures for the Prairie Provinces, but sefore passing to that part of the analysis. a few additional points may be mentioned in connection with Table 1831. The Italians, with an infant mortality rate somewhat larger than that of the British stocks and with over twice as many adult males as females in Canada, show 32.03 p.c. of their population under 10 years of age as against 21 p.c. for ‘he British. The Greeks, with between three and four times more males than females (21 years and over) and with an equally high infant mortality rate, had a percentage under 10 years one quarter larger than that for the British stocks. In the Japanese stock, with two and a half times as many men as women, 24.03 p.c. of the total were below 10 years of age. The proportions under 10 for the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples, on the other hand, were only slightly above that for the British stocks.

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