THE PRE-WAR QUARTER CENTURY 
TABLE 25.—CyCLES IN MALE EMIGRATION, BY MONTHS: 1910-1914 
Three-month moving average of percentage deviations from the mean for the 
period, expressed as multiples of their standard deviation (19.1 per cent). 
YEAR AND MONTH Deviation YEAR AND MONTH DEeviaTiON 
1910 1912 
dan........... a July. SH —0.2 
Feb... —2.0 Avg... —0.3 
Mar... —1.1 EP ce aii hs ee —0.2 
i oF ag —0 4 Det... .0 
Maye. oo ails wl 2 Novia Siri +0.6 
June... sv... —1.4 IGE. cls + since ia +1.3 
July ions lS 11913 
hs —0.5 
I Siac x x xs os —0.5 RR Jane ym +1.2 
A —0.4 Pebbles +0.5 
Nov.........-. —0.6 Var iar as —0.4 
Dec........... —0.5 BT 3 ain nae —0.8 
My. laid. —0.7 
1911 June... io. edd —0.6 
Jol. —0.2 July oo ill —0.5 
i +0.1 ue —0.8 
Mar... 0. +0.4 Sept... 000 —0.7 
ADL vane vn +0.6 Oot. Lolssa —1.1 
VISY « oniis den x +0.9 Nov..... cin —1.1 
June.......... +2.0 Doe... lav +0.1 
July. nies +2.3 [1914 
ue... .... +2.3 Ja. a +1.0 
Septe.. oul, +1.4 Bebb ova +0.9 
OIE ho eis e sien +1.2 Mar..........48 +0.1 
Nov........... +1.0 apr... Vo. —0.1 
Dee.......-... +0.3 May: dons is +1.6 
JUNE. Ji). «+ sielsbics +1.5 
1912 
Jamo au —0.2 Jaly ill R00. +1.8 
Reb... aviee.e —0.2 ARE. .icils crass +0.2 
Mar. ........, .0 Sept............ —0.4 
Apri... 0. ml —0.4 Pete buat, —1.6 
May.......... —0.6 NOV... visas —1.9 
June. ....... —0.6 Daca leek rn. 
sComputed from monthly emigration statistics in the U. S. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, 
Immigration Bulletin (monthly). 
The Volume of Unemployment and the Volume of Immigration. 
The analysis in the preceding sections has indicated rather clearly 
that fluctuations in both emigration and immigration are closely 
related to employment conditions in this country. 
The question next arises as to the extent to which the volume of 
immigration is numerically comparable with the contemporaneous 
volume of unemployment. It is obvious that the inadequacy of the 
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