SURPLUS OF MALES OF DIFFERENT BIRTHPLACES 73

Table 34 presents a significant summary. The immigrants from the United States, consisting
 mainly of British, French, Scandinavian and Germanic stocks and settling to a great
extent in rural areas, show the nearest approximation to equality in the numbers of males
and females. The British born, with 14 p.c. surplus males, rank next. While the majority
of these locate in urban communities!, on the whole they are permanent settlers intending to
make their homes in this country and to assume the responsibilities and duties of citizenship.
 The Germanic and Slavic countries send larger proportions of females than does any
other foreign group, the United States excepted. Among the immigrants from these countries
 there was a surplus of only about 35 p.c. males. ‘Of the Europeans, the immigrants from
the Scandinavian and Latin and Greek countries are in a class more or less by themselves,
with 75 p.c. to 88 p.c. surplus males among the foreign born in Canada. As has been pointed
out already, Asiatic immigration is unique in the overwhelming preponderance of males.2

TABLE 34—SUMMARY TABLE SHOWING PERCENTAGE OF MALES AND FEMALES AND PERCENT-AGE
 SURPLUS OF MALES FOR IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA, BY SPECIFIED GROUPS OF
COUNTRIES OF BIRTH. 1921

Total Immigrants......... wae
British born.................. V3 SHERENE SORE
Foreign born...............uuu. we we 6 GHD Shen dh Ea
DD ost BOS sas an J
South, Eastern and Central FUuTOpe. ..u..evrviire: vernirins cites ieiiirnienvanns
United States........ooovevi ovvieiiiinnainn eerie
SCANAINAVIAN. .. .\ ttt t eit eee e eerie aaa eae aaas
GEIINATIC. . vivian einen ee ee eerie,
Latin and Greek................. § CEPEEE aw
Slavic... .
Agia

Per cent
Males

5.5"
53 2¢
58-3.
50-02
50-40
RD. EF!
43-6
b7-0*
652°
57-9.
20.0)

Per cent
Females

44.44
46-78
41-65
39-97
40-60
47-48
36-39
42-98
34-68
42-08
311.08

Percentage

Surplus
of Males

i

.

Earlier in this section the statement was made that were the adult population examined
 separately, the proportions of surplus males would be greater than appear in the data
given for the total population of all ages. Such was the expectation because of the tendency
 for the numbers of the sexes to be more or less equal among children. That such is
actually the case is shown for the foreign born in Table 35. Column 1 gives the percentages
 of surplus males in the total foreign born population by country of birth and column
2 gives the data for the adult population in each case. Both of the percentages for the
Icelanders are exceptional and no explanation is offered, as the numbers of the sexes are so
nearly equal among the adults as well as the children, and the differences in the percentages
so insignificant that the case would seem to be unimportant. The significant point in the
table is that for every other country of birth the surplus of males is greater in the adult
population. In some cases it is very much greater.
Similarly, when the proportions of surplus males are computed for the adult population
of the several origins (Table 36), they are seen to be in excess of the percentages for all
ages given in Tables 29, 30 and 81. These two tables show that the significant differences
in sex distribution were minimized rather than overstated in the earlier part of this chapter.
Further use will be made of the data in the subsequent discussion of intermarriage and
fertility. etn.

1 8ee Table 51, p. 105.
2 The above remarks refer to grouns of countries as such; individual exceptions within the groups have
heen previously noted.