Principles of statistical inquiry; as illustrated in proposals for uniting an examination into the resources of the United States with the census to be taken in 1840 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...of the last census, was far below the actual number, as the small proportion of the people which they constituted, falls much below the lowest estimate which can be formed of their actual number, not much above l-4th, and from several indirect proofs, we would be inclined to compute the number of foreigners not naturalized, in this country, at 400,000 persons. To show that the subjects have already been discussed without satisfactory information, we may add that Dr. Seybert, estimates the average number of immigrants arriving in this country, between the years 1790 and 1810, as about 6000 annually, while Mr. Booth, d uring the latter 10 years of that period, states the number of immigrants to have been 645,389, or about 64,000 annually. The following table is compiled from the Treasury reports, and shows the number of immigrants who arrived here in 1836, though there is no general table appended to the report, and in making out this one, we found some inaccuracy, which we could not correct, in the returns from the port of Philadelphia, and therefore we altered them to make the result correspond with the aggregate number. We append as interesting, another calculation of the proportion which the immigrants of different ages under 40, bear to the whole number, by which it will be seen that the infant females are much more numerous than the infant males, that the adult males in their turn greatly outnumber the adult female immigrants. These isolated tables are of little value, except as showing the kind of information which may,be extracted from the custom-house reports regarding immigrants, and we shall therefore not comment further upon them. And further, it is but fit and proper, that the number and influence of the foreign population should be known. We are...
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