TABLE 22.— Number and per cent of persons 20 years of age or over in each conjugal condition, by sex and general nativity and race of individual-Continued.

TABLE 22.-Number and per cent of persons 20 years of age or over in each conjugal condition, by sex and general nativity and race of individual-Continued.

Of the total number of persons 20 years of age or over reporting conj: gal condition, 13.4 per cent were single, 65 per cent married, and 21.6 per cent deserted, separated, or widowed.

A considerably smaller proportion of the foreign-born than of the native-born were single; the percentages are 8 and 16.6, respectively. The proportion of those widowed varies only slightly in the general nativity groups, but varies materially among the races.

The following races show more than one-fourth of all persons involved, either deserted, separated, or widowed:

Negro, native-born of native father..

Swedish, foreign-born..

Irish, foreign-born..

Norwegian, foreign-born..

Bohemian and Moravian, foreign-born.

German, foreign-born....

Per cent.

30.4

28.6

28.1

27.7

26.8

25.5

A comparison of the sexes as to conjugal condition shows the following:

Of the foreign-born males 13.5 per cent were single, while of the foreign-born females only 3.8 per cent were single. Of the foreign-born males 5 per cent and of the foreign-born females 33.9 per cent were deserted, separated, or divorced.

Of the females, 40 per cent or more in the following races were deserted, separated, or divorced:

The next table shows, by race, the number of cases where the wife was the head, reported widowed, deserted, or separated, and the per cent which each forms of the total.

TABLE 23.-Number and per cent of cases assisted in which wife was head and reported widowed, deserted, or separated, by general nativity and race of head of case.

[This table includes only races represented by 20 or more cases as shown in Table 3. The totals, however, are for all races.

TABLE 23.-Number and per cent of cases assisted in which wife was head and reported widowed, deserted, or separated, by general nativity and race and head of case- -Continued.

The cases where a widow was the head comprise 20.5 per cent of the total number. The percentages, by general nativity, are 21.3 for foreign-born and 19.9 for native-born.

For several races the head was a widow in more than one-fourth of all cases.

The races are

The cases where the head was a woman deserted or separated, comprise 9.7 per cent of the total number. The percentages by general nativity are, for the native-born 10.8 and for the foreign-born 7.9.

The next table includes the same cases as are shown in the table immediately preceding. This table, however, shows for all cases in which the wife was the head, reported widowed, deserted, or separated, the proportion of cases in which she was widowed, and the proportion of cases in which she was deserted or separated.

TABLE 24.-Number and per cent of cases in which wife is head and reported widowed, deserted, or separated, by general nativity and race of head of case.

[This table includes only races represented by 50 or more cases, as shown in Table 3. The totals, however, are for all races.]

TABLE 24.--Number and per cent of cases in which wife is head and reported widowed, deserted, or separated, by general nativity and race of head of case-Continued.

The wife was reported widowed in 67.8 per cent and deserted or separated in 32.2 per cent of all cases where a wife was the head of a case and reported widowed, deserted, or separated. Among the foreign-born 27.1 per cent, and among the native-born 35.2 per cent, were reported deserted or separated.

GENERAL OCCUPATION OF PERSONS UNDER 16 YEARS OF AGE.

The next table shows for each race the percentage of children at home, at school, and at work. In the complete report these data are shown in the general tables for all children under 16 and also for each of the age groups-under 6, 6 to 13, and 14 and 15.