SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS 
TABLE 54.—INDICES OF PRE-WAR SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS IN DEPARTURES* 
Monthly average = 100 
EMIGRANT ALIENS NON-EMIGRANT ALIENS 
Crr- Jl—sj | ea — 
IZENS Un- No oc- 
| SouTH SouTH 
MonNTH| ToraL | MALE | SKIL- CUPA- ToraL| MALE | 
| i TOR ITALIAN | ITALIAN 
a | b c iF d e f iN gz h i 
Jan. | 71.3M894.9 0006.2 81.7 57.1 80.0 | 72.9 |110.7 | 59.4 
Feb. |& 970.8 iNG5. 3960.0 54.2 56.2 36.9 | 61.0 | 67.5 36.9 
Mar. | 80.1173.8 70.2' 729 70.3 53.4 | 77.4 | 85.3 72.1 
Apr. 96.3 190.2 76.8, 69.4 96.5 43.4 (108.8 |120.0 89.0 
May 111.4 | 90.7 | 79.7 | 65.8 116.6 50.7 4117.6 1127.3 105.5 
June 159.1 105.0 ! 87.9 | 77.6 142.8 59.5 (130.7 |119.6 84.5 
July 180.5 [106.2 96.4 92.0 159.9 86.5 105.8 | 96.3 90.5 
Aug. 113.3 199.6 95.8 95.6 128.9 100.3 | 92.5 | 79.9 88.8 
Sept. 80.301 95.2 95.0 102.7 113.0 102.6 Y 91.14°72.2 108.0 
Oct. 81.1701(:2..21 108.0 113.0 106.1 130.0 {101.6 ' 85.2 108.4 
Nov. 74.3 | 6 167.5 189 .4 87.2 211.6 (1'3.8 110.9 161.5 
Dec. S07 S74 W166. 1 185.2 65.2 244 501.7.3'1125.3 195.3 
~ *Computed from statistics in the 1907 to 1914 issues of the monthly bulletin of the U. S. Bureau of 
Immigration and Naturalization. The periods covered by the data are as follows: Series b and g, July, 
1907 to June, 1914; series d, e, f, and i, January, 1909 to June, 1914: and series a, c, and h, January, 1910 
to June, 1914. 
Similar data for male aliens have been used for the period from 
January, 1910, to December, 1913, inclusive, in arriving at the 
figures in the last two columns of Table 55. In Chart 51, we have a 
graphic presentation of the average distribution by months, first 
CHART 51 
PRE-WAR SEASONAL DISTRIBUTION OF NET IMMIGRATION. 
Unit= one person 
80000 Above zero line = 
ir Excess of Arrivals over Departures 
60000 
0000 
40000 
30000 
20000 
10000 
WT 
Tens net Below zero line = » 
-10000 } - : 
) O-O Aate Aliens net Excess of in in over Arrivals 
Loan. | res. | mar | aR | may une Luly | alle | SEPT) ocr | NOV. | DEC. | 
«Numerical data in Table 55. 
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