Postal savings

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Identifikator:: 869930397

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-49420

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kemmerer, Edwin Walter http://d-nb.info/gnd/101827717

Title:: Postal savings

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Humphrey Milford

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 176 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IV - Depositors and deposits

Collection:: Economics Books

DEPOSITORS AND DEPOSITS 63 ural to ask : ( 1 ) How has the plan appealed to persons of different ages, and particularly how has it appealed to children who represent the part of our population whose education in thrift would appear to be the most important? and (2) How has it appealed to our negro population, which, as a whole, and allowing for numerous worthy exceptions, is our most thriftless class? Age Grouping of Depositors No recent figures are available for the age grouping of depositors. An investigation of this subject, however, was made as of June 30, 1912, after the postal savings system had been in oper ation a year and a half. The result of that in vestigation has been furnished the writer by the Third Assistant Postmaster-General, and is summarized in the following table, the last two columns of which have been added by the writer. The table shows that children from 10 to 14 years of age constitute about four-fifths as large a percentage of the depositors as they do of the country’s total population 10 years of age or over; while persons from 15 to 19 years of age consti tute about two-thirds as large a percentage. The facts are considerably more favorable to children depositors than the figures show. This is true, first, because of the fact previously noted that

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