Postal savings

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Chapter IV - Depositors and deposits

Collection:: Economics Books

DEPOSITORS AND DEPOSITS 65 the middle age groups that postal savings are most popular, the three age groups 25-34, 35-44, and 20-24, in their order, showing the largest pro portions of depositors to the total population in the respective age groups. Negro Depositors The colored population, although it lives chiefly in the sections of the country where non governmental bank facilities are relatively lack ing, has made little use of the postal savings sys tem. As in the case of the age grouping of de positors, the only available statistics as to color grouping relate to June 30, 1912. At that time the total number of depositors was 243.801 and they were grouped as follows: White 239,128 American negroes 4,006 Other negroes 456 American Indians 12 Chinese 23 J apanese 134 Other non-whites 42 Total 243,801 This gives the whites 98.1 per cent of the total, and the American negroes 1.6 per cent, whereas their respective percentages in the total popula tion in 1910 were 88.8 and 10.7. Evidently the postal savings system is accomplishing practically nothing in reaching the negro population. This

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Postal savings

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation