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POSTAL SAVINGS 
Table 9 
Number and Percentage of Depositors, June 30, 1912, by Age 
Groups. 
Age groups 
10-14 years 
15-19 “ 
20-24 “ 
25-34 “ 
35-44 “ 
45-64 “ 
65 years and 
over 
Unknown 
Total 
N umber 
25,108 
20,703 
32,529 
70,672 
'45,488 
40,977 
7,987 
337 
243,801 
3 
Per cent 
10.3 
8.5 
13.3 
29.0 
18.7 
16.8 
3.3 
0.1 
100.0 
4 
Per cent of 
total popula 
tion 10 years 
of age or 
over in age 
group in 1910 
12.7 
12.6 
12.6 
21.1 
16.2 
18.7 
5.8 
0.3 
100.00 
Ratio of per 
centage of 
depositors in 
each age group 
to group’s per 
centage of to- 
tal population 
.81 
.67 
1.06 
1.37 
1.15 
.90 
.57 
there is a very small percentage of children 
among that foreign born population which con 
stitutes much over half of the postal savings de 
positors, and second, because the postal savings 
bank stamp cards and stamps, representing sav 
ings of less than a dollar, are probably used 
mostly by children, and the savings represented 
by outstanding cards belonging to persons who 
have not yet opened their accounts do not figure 
in the records. 9 
The table shows emphatically that it is among 
9 This item would be too small to be worthy of mention 
were it not for the fact that a very large percentage of the 
persons who figure in the statistics as depositors have de 
posits of only one dollar.