The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-23
north CAROLINA:
ITS POPULATION
September ]. 1909, and the date OF
enumeration. April is. 1910.
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September ]. 1909, and the date OF
enumeration. April is. 1910
Tho total number Of persons of school
iaSiyslSsI.ss 4s g 5ss. Of r whom yS a .S6S.
p to isn. sssl es sgeD0 ander
six and S.o55 persons twenty-on and
over attended school Both for boys
seSol ss fTor Citizen frem sEE
eentase attending school, IIs was liz. H The
STT xs9 - native as,is whites Of foreign o.
among foreir nSS Rph fissasaF sss and and
ties he oe e srRd of tsn
age attending school was rs. and In
The Census Bureau classihes as fllit-
crate any person. ten years of age or
oyer who is unable to write, regardless
=. There are ssl.4o7 illiterates in the
STATE, representing 1S.5 per cent of tho
total population ten years OF age and
~ $l.a among negroes, 1913 among ma
} BORN Wits 1sss and Is sg@sen 4or
native whites OF foreign or mixed pa pa.
ce For 20 all ciaTses combined; the per
a asra, popr,dtion than in The urban
separately, also the percentage I'm the
rural population exceeds that in the
For persons from ten to twenty years
oe age, inclusive: whose literacy, de-
e eHnds aTGe Ecb np9n school ia
centase of illiteracy is io7.
Marital Condition.
In the population fifteen years of
Ok n 10
are single and 3l.o per cent Of the fe-
spsetively. The percentages of It those
spectively. are believed TO be too small,
because of the probability that many
s siineTee a. persons persons class themselves as
NAT tho percentage single Is smaller
tor women than for mon is due largely
Thus l4,3 per cent Of the females from
married. as compared With 10 per cent ent
fcmeies. from twenty to twentS.fo our
Years OF age arc married, as compared
t W,.n ne ~ p, per cent of tho males. In
ty-iour years. the difference largely
aisanpears. while in tho succeeding age
e e, among the males: That there is a
, IA proportion, of widows than of
Nftan s may Indicate that men more
husbands are generally older than their
wives. the marriage relationship is
more often broken by death Of the
husband than by death of the wife
For the main elements of the popula
non inc percentages OF married persons
among those fifteen years of age and
over are as follows: foreign born
whites, 62.2 for males and 6s.7 for fe J..
males; native whites of native parent
age, h3.5 both for males and for fe-
males; native whites of foreign or
mixed parentage, 5i.3 and SO, respec-
lively; negroes, $50 and $40
hcSe percentages by no means indi-
cate inc relative tendency of the sew
eral classes rs regards marriage To
determine that. the comparison should
p9rti9n married in any class is deter
mined largely by the proportion who
naEe reached the marrying age SINH
iiarlN,, the proportion widowed depends
iaTSelE on the proportion past middle
IRE; Ihe percentage married both for
males and for fmales. is higher in rural
IMAM III urban communities
Dwellings and Families
~ me TOTAL number of dwellings in
North Carolina is 43057o and the total
number of families i40.334, indicatinr
Inat ~ comparatively Few cases does
more man one family occupy a dwell
ing. Ihe average number of persons
per evening is 81, and the average