NORMS AND TRENDS IN DEPOSITS 67
former relating to the year-to-year changes in ratios of time de-
posits to total deposits, and the latter to ratios of demand deposits
to total deposits.
Table 47 shows consistency among the respective districts in
the direction of change characterizing the ratios of time deposits
to total deposits. Table 48 indicates as striking consistency in
the positions held by districts relative to the averages for the
country as a whole. Boston, New York, Kansas City, and Dal-
las, for the entire seven years, are below, while the remaining
districts (except Philadelphia, in 1920) are above the country’s
averages. If, as determined in this manner, districts are rela-
tively low in one year, they are low throughout all of the years;
conversely, if they are high, they remain high. Such a condition
might be accounted for by the wide differences between the dis-
trict ratios and those for the country, or by similarities of change
from year to year. It will be seen later that it is primarily due
to the uniformities of the rates of change. An explanation for
such similarity will be offered in due course.
The signs in Table 48 are, of course, the opposite of those in
Table 39. That is, those districts which have high or low ratios
of time deposits to total deposits have low or high ratios of de-
mand deposits to total deposits, and vice versa.
Chart 14 graphically presents the ratios of time deposits to
total deposits for the respective years and districts. It is drawn
TABLE 48
PERCENTAGE DIFFERENCES OF DISTRICT AVERAGES OF RATIOS OF
TiMe Deposits 10 ToraL Deposits For ALL MEMBER
BANKS, FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, FROM AVERAGES
FOR THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE
FepERAL
RESERVE
DISTRICTS
Boston. .....
New York. ..
Philadelphia..
Cleveland... .
Richmond...
Atlanta......
Chicago. ....
St. Louis. . . .
Minneapolis. .
Kansas City..
Dallas. ......
San Francisco
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