DEPOSITORS  AND  DEPOSITS

59

Table  I
Nativity  of  Depositors  in  Postal  Savings  Banks

Country
of
nativity

Greece  ...
Russia  ...
Italy
Hungary  .
Austria
Sweden  ...
G’t  Britain
and  colonies»
Germany  ...
Gther  foreign ­
  countries ­

Total  foreign
countries
United
States«  ....

Percentage
of  total  deposits ­
  made
by  natives  of
each  country

1.8
20.7
14.2
4.3
8.7
2.2
8.8
4.1

7.0
71.8
28.2

Number  and  percentage
of  population  of  U.  S.
born  in  each  country

Number

(000
omitted)

101
1,732
1,343
496
1,175
665
3,768
2,501

1,565
13,346
80,000

Per  cent

0.11
1.86
1.44
0.53
1.26
0.71
4.04
2.68

1.68
14.3
85.7

Per  capita
deposits

Dollars

11.70
7.85
6.95
5.69
4.86
2.17
1.53
1.08

2.94
3.53
0.23

lection”  against  the  deposits  by  natives,  since  a
much  larger  percentage  of  the  foreign  bom  than
of  the  natives  are  10  years  of  age  or  over  and  are
therefore  eligible  to  become  depositors.  This  error ­
  in  the  crude  figures  may  be  approximately
estimated.  The  thirteenth  census  showed  that

'’  Covers  only  Great  Britain,  Ireland  and  Canada.
0  Covers  United  States,  Hawaii,  and  Porto  Rico.